Non-Manifestive Consciousness

Our consciousness is called non-manifestive consciousness. It's not manifesting anything, it's unconstructed. So I'll just give a couple of examples to kind of see if we can get, have some sense of what this means. There's a simile the Buddha used about a sunbeam of light. If there's no object, there's no place for the sunbeam to land and so it's un-illuminated. Guy Armstrong, one of my teaching colleagues, gives a very striking example. He says to imagine being at the edge of the solar system, okay, out beyond Pluto someplace, facing away from the sun. The light from the sun is coming