Question: Is the mindfulness of Buddhism or Sati the Conscious You?
Answer from the Ascended Gautama Buddha through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2025 Korea Conference.
There is no yes or no answer. It depends on how the individual practitioners or teachers look at this. There are various interpretations of what mindfulness is, of what no-self is, of what an undifferentiated state of consciousness is, and some have grasped the same idea, although they do not use the same words as what we call the Conscious You. But some have not. They have created a mental image of what it means to have no-self or be mindful or be mindless or have an undifferentiated state of consciousness.
As with everything, some people have a higher vision, some people have a lower vision. Some people have taken the words, interpreted them in a certain way and they now believe they have the highest understanding of this so they are not really open to listening to anything that comes through their intuitive faculties. I will say here in this context that I am an ascended master, the Ascended Master Gautama Buddha. I have been an ascended for 2,500 years. I have watched from the ascended level how Buddhism has developed, fractured into different factions and as Jesus has watched Christianity splinter, we have been willing to work with people and give them intuitive insights that could have avoided not all but certainly many of these splits.
There is a natural way that any teaching can be interpreted from different perspectives and people can focus on different aspects of the teachings and that is perfectly fine as long as they do not fall prey to this temptation to think that they have the ultimate interpretation and that all the others are wrong. Once you go into this mindset, you have taken the interpretation of the teaching too far and you have cut yourself off from contact with the teacher and therefore, you are moving further and further away from the original goal of the teaching while of course being convinced that you are moving closer and closer to that goal.
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