Awareness and the universe

Here’s a story I made. There was once a mathematical system that tried to define itself fully. When it succeeded, it ceased to be a mathematical system — and everything could then be “proved” from it.

Here’s a similar story from the Śūraṅgama Sūtra (楞严经). There was once “Awareness” (觉), and it was “Clear” (明). It tried to understand its own property of being Clear. When it succeeded (becoming 明觉), it was no longer Clear — and everything (this universe) came to be.

By definition, all sentient beings inherently possess awareness (一切有情众生自有觉性), because they are fragments of Awareness.

My extrapolation: before the universe, there is math.

It’s also 邪门 (weird) to see the side effect of Awareness (Consciousness/识) acting as human — at least as weird as some Cthulhu creature acting as human.

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