What Is Consciousness?

The only way you can know what consciousness is is by your being conscious of it. That means a scientist can't do it for you. You can't read what consciousness is in a text book, because the formula itself is within consciousness. So when we talk about star dust, you're thinking about star dust. It's what you're imagining it to be. And that's what reality is. Consciousness is that which imagines distinctions. I'm using consciousness and mind interchangeably in this talk.