The mind comprises two parts - the prevailing conscious mind and subtle conscious mind. The prevailing mind is connected to the physical body and sleeps when the body sleeps. The subtle mind is independent and can still experience dreams when the body sleeps. During near-death experiences, the prevailing mind dormant while the subtle mind remains active and relates out of body experiences. When enlightened, the prevailing mind plays a dominant role in observing thoughts from the submissive subtle mind without identifying with them, allowing past and future lives to be seen. True liberation only occurs when both minds are absorbed into emptiness upon death.

1. Conditions of the Mind
The mind comprises with two terms i.e. prevailing consciousness and subtle
consciousness. Both of these terms would interact differently under the
circumstances described as below: -
Asleep
When one is asleep, the prevailing conscious mind would fall into slumber at the
same time. Basically, prevailing conscious mind is closely related to the physical
body. This means there would be a biological clock being attached within it i.e.
there would be duration for staying awake and for resting.
However, there is another term of mind i.e. the subtle conscious mind that has no
biological clock in it. Subtle conscious mind is somehow independent from the
physical body. This is because when the physical body is being ‘switch-off’
temporarily, the subtle conscious mind still works unpretentiously. For example,
we could still have visions in our dreams even with our physical eyes closed while
asleep.
And dreams are succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the
mind during sleep. In other words, we could say that subtle mind consciousness is
like VCR – recording analog audio and analog video from broadcast television so
that the images and sound can be played back at a more convenient time.
Near-death Experience (NDE)
Perhaps, one has heard of many reported incidences related to near-death, out-
of-body experience and the tunnel of light vision. How could we explain these
phenomena?
Append below, please find the illustrations that could clarify the above scenario: -
Key: -
Prevailing Conscious Mind
Subtle Conscious Mind
The Clear Light
Dependent phenomenon
The Mind of a living being

2. Key : -
Prevailing Conscious Mind
in dormant
Subtle Conscious Mind in
active
The Clear Light
Observation by
Subtle Conscious Mind
Dependent phenomenon
The Mind of a being in NDE
During the circumstance of near-death, the two terms of the mind are separated
from each other i.e. the prevailing conscious mind would be in a dormant condition
but the subtle conscious mind remains in an active condition. In other words, the
subtle mind consciousness plays an active role in relating the out-of-body
experience and the tunnel of light vision. The clear light is actually the Buddha
nature within all beings.
Enlightenment
During the circumstance of enlightenment, the two terms of the mind would
separate from each other – the prevailing conscious mind would play in a dominant
role, whereas, the subtle conscious mind would remain in a submissive condition.
Key: -
Prevailing Conscious Mind
Subtle Conscious Mind
The Clear Light
Dependent phenomenon
The Mind of a non-enlightened being

3. Key : -
Subtle Conscious Mind
The Clear Light /
The Black hole of Emptiness
Observation by Prevailing Conscious
Mind
Dependent phenomenon
The Mind of an enlightened being
The role of prevailing conscious mind is like mind-in-command i.e. the mind that
can lead, take charge, concentrate, make decision and convey action. An
enlightened mind can be described as a prevailing conscious mind with liberation
from the thoughts i.e. instead of being the thoughts; the perspective is shifted to
watching the thoughts churned out by subtle conscious mind. In other words, it
means the prevailing conscious mind would make observation without identifying
with the thoughts – the subtle conscious mind. This liberation from thought
identification to thought observation is called the experience of the Buddha nature.
During the process of observation, the awakened prevailing conscious mind could
also discern with the so-called memory fragments of the previous lives subdued
within the subtle conscious mind. This is because within the elements of subtle
consciousness one would discover the elements of subtle memory. Within the
elements of subtle memory one would discover the elements of subtle information.
In other words, the awakened prevailing conscious mind could see through the
‘seed treasures’ of kamma accumulated from the retained subtle information
throughout the series of one’s past lives in crystal clear and without hesitation.
Besides seeing through the past life events, an awakened mind could also foresee
into the future events. In a layman term, it is named as a de-ja vu experience or
some kind of time travelling to the future condition. This is because an awakened
mind is highly luminous and vigilant to any development of circumstances and
surpassing time. And from direct experience, time travelling to the future
condition is plausible and could be evidently proven. Append below would be the
highlights pertaining to several of my future visions or de-ja vu experiences that
have taken place: -
The sinking of a boat in Johore, Malaysia.
– April 29, 2009

4. The death of Michael Jackson.
– June 25, 2009
The political situation in Malaysia revealed by Wikileaks.
– December 15, 2010
The simultaneous big floods in several countries.
– January 12, 2011
The death of Osama bin Laden.
– May 1, 2011
For the event details, please refer to
http://forum.ipoh.com.my/showthread.php?t=9241
In Buddhism, it is mentioned that only a human can attain enlightenment as a fully
enlightened Buddha. This is because humans are just one type of sentient being
with both the prevailing and the subtle conscious mind stream that can find
balance between happiness and suffering via the meditating processes. Basically,
there are two types of meditation in Buddhism. One is samatha and the other is
vipassanā meditation. Samatha meditation is to calm or tranquil the mind by
means of concentration. Whereas, vipassanā meditation is to mould the mind into
seeing all things as they really are – an insight into the true nature of reality. The
main focus of vipassanā meditation is to attain pure awareness via mindfulness.
Vipassanā is often preceded by samatha but nonetheless, both types are inter-
dependable throughout the practices in order to achieve favourable results in
meditation. Upon entering deeply into a meditative state (in full concentration),
the prevailing mind consciousness would separate from the subtle mind
consciousness. The main reason for engaging samatha meditation is to calm or
tranquil the wilderness of the subtle mind consciousness. Thereafter, the
prevailing conscious mind enters a state of pure observation (mindful) without
identification on the flow of thoughts conjured up by the subtle conscious mind
until pure awareness is attained.
Moreover, when one has gained enlightenment while sustaining with a living body,
the mind would still exist but with a paradigm shift into seeing all the things or
happenings in the ultimate perspectives without delusion or hesitation. The mind
has not gained with a complete liberation yet and this circumstance is also known
as cessation with remainder. The ultimate liberation or cessation without
remainder can only be achieved without sustaining a living body i.e. the passing
into parinibbāna. During one last time of disintegrating process, the subtle mind
consciousness would be absorbed into the black hole of emptiness and then

5. followed by the prevailing mind consciousness. In the absence of the mind, the
dependent phenomenon would die out concurrently. Ultimately, there is no mind
remaining in the infinite, unchanging, permanent and unconditional state of nibbāna
and this is the ambience for an eternal bliss.