Yes, attachment to mind and body leads to suffering. But consciousness as meant in this sense is a metaphysical concept. The Buddha of course famously rejected it in favour of an objective reality of impermanence. He argued that attachment to any permanence is a delusion because everything in reality is in a dynamic state of change. Therefore enlightenment to Buddhists is the realisation of no-self (An-atman).
Anyway, within a subjective reality one recognises that the waking consciousness that is experienced by the pyscho-physical complex that is us, is impermanent. The consciousness in which the reality exists however does not die with the death of the body. |