The Vaibhāṣika rebuttal to the notion that some subtle form consciousness persists even after the attainment of cessation points to the tripartite nature of the dependently arising cognitive phenomena: cognitive awareness, being inherently intentional, is always directed toward an object, and whenever there is contact with such an object there is feeling and apperception.
The pictures are grand and beautiful, but the subtle self-consciousness of the "viewers" proves deadening.
Something else has changed: Strand is now old, and in the background of his poetry of the past ten years a ticking clock makes the subtle self-consciousness feel absurd.
Even when he is absorbed in practical matters that have life-or-death consequences, our ancient mariner maintains a sense of style; there is a subtle self-consciousness in his efforts to embody the old Hemingway-esque ideal of grace under pressure.
In his debut collection of essays, Regret (Lettered Streets Press, 2014), author Ryan Spooner explores these assumptions with gentle regard, subtle self-consciousness, and a wholly new type of investigation into masculinity.
Other Sautrāntikas, such as Vasumitra, content that in effect a subtle form of consciousness continues even after the attainment of cessation, for to assume otherwise would be equivalent to claiming that life can continue without consciousness (an untenable position for the Buddhist).
With just a subtle shift in consciousness, you can celebrate a green holiday and give Mother Earth a present too.
Readers of ancient Vedic texts from India may accept that sleep is a time for inward knowing and subtle experiences in consciousness.
For example, the binary item response format of the APZ was too crude to measure subtle alterations of consciousness.
The more subtle aspects of consciousness mentioned by Bohm and Peat reside further 'down-stream', within the generative order, and may take the form of some rarefied, transcendent form of consciousness.
