Consciousness Cup

Level 1:
Your body explaining to you how it works — that’s what you call consciousness.
The harder the word (consciousness), the less people understand it.
When two things in your body bump into each other, this becomes temporarily visible.
Since there are many ways things can bump into each other in your body, consciousness has many forms.
Buddha wasn’t very good at this. He stated that there is pure consciousness and something that arises from that — which is actually the other way around.
The biblical explanation is way better.
Two body parts bump into each other (“in a beginning”).
Motion goes up (heaven) and down (earth).
The story about Adam and Eve eating fruit is not about the Adam’s apple (that’s where it got confusing for me — I always thought that, to be honest), but something inside your thigh that tastes like fruit.

Level 2:
You start to understand that you are also the thing on the other side of the coin.
Maybe you think that when you have a wound on your knee, your knee heals itself — as if there is a “you” and a “knee.”
But that’s not the case. You are rearing your own knee. You are stitching it yourself.
You just don’t know how it works — that’s why you need consciousness.

Level 3:
After you’ve gone through different body parts in Level 2, you start to think about: what is the "I" if I am the whole thing simultaneously?
A simple mind would say: “There is no I.”

Level 4:
Someone says: like in quantum mechanics, the I and the all coexist — simultaneously, at the same time.

Level 5:
You’ve finished the easy levels. Now, you start to implement this in real life.
You change habits in your life that maximize your energy efficiency, so you experience as much pure consciousness as possible.

The other day, a fly landed on my knee. I saw how it moved. The life within the fly was so beautiful that I almost cried.
I also saw kids playing a simple game outside. Again, I had tears in my eyes — it was so beautiful to see.
When I was on vacation, I met a girl who was a fan of seals. We went on a boat trip, and she kept a diary of all the seals she saw.
I can’t describe in words what that did to me.

These are real experiences that I would describe as pure consciousness.
Or sometimes you read a poem and you are literally speechless.

Therefore, I want to build a bridge between theoretical consciousness and real life.
Consciousness is beautiful as a theoretical study, but the real magic is in lived experience.

A lot of people don’t call this consciousness, but still understand what life is truly about.

Level 6:
Where are humans phenomenal? Energy efficiency.

You spend nature’s energy — you give back.

For example:
You use ChatGPT to ask a question. You get the answer, but you've spent resources. You've used literal, physical materials like coal to power that interaction.
It's a scale, a choice — perhaps the most important choice to make.

Another example:
You spend your own energy in the gym, but you get something better back in return. You give, you take.

Another example:
One of the most precious forms of energy is a woman’s energy.
A woman can simultaneously spend her own energy while using energy to form a new child. She spends nine months of her life sacrificing for that.

One more time—for how beautiful this is:
A woman can spend her energy so efficiently that she can simultaneously live and create a new form of life.
Two things at the same time.

If you don’t understand how beautiful and sacred this is, this is not the place for you.
It doesn’t get more beautiful or perfect than that.

Another example:
Have you ever thought about how efficient the human body is?
I weigh 81 kilos. When I eat, I measure in grams—not kilos.
That’s how efficient it is.

 

 

Funny enough, this is also why you subconsciously feel uneasy around overweight people. They extract a lot from the system but don’t spend much — energetically speaking. You don’t mind bodybuilders extracting a lot, because they do something with that energy — for example, inspiring others.
In other words: their game is off. They’re not efficient with energy.

Buddha wasn’t great at understanding this either. Restabilizing to your breath is like putting a car in neutral. It doesn’t make a lot of sense (maybe a few times a day, sure — but not as a constant state).

Back to our universe.
We’ve obviously crossed lines that were unimaginable before. Religious people, for instance, are often better at balancing their own and nature’s resources — working six days and taking one day off.
In that one day, you give the ecosystem a chance to restore balance — and you give yourself time to reflect.
You took six days; now you stabilize one.