The Importance of Consciousness

I think it's something that has been pondered by contemplatives perhaps forever. What happens to awareness and consciousness when the body dies? And personally, I believe that some trace of the body's wisdom, the body mind's wisdom because ultimately body and mind have never been separate. Some people will call that a belief. I call it a trust in my own experience through practice. But I also really respect that different people are in different places. So I find being true to your own experience is so much more important than grabbing a belief system or trusting in what others say about what happens.