Zen Zen - What Was Your True Face Before You Were Born?

There's a clear sense of the non-local, true self-nature that is existent prior to the arising of this particular local manifestation. At the same time, I don't know why that excludes the possibility of there being times at which there's no consciousness or awareness. But there's like cessation and there's also neurodha, pottie. These like lights out experiences from like deep meditative absorption.