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Last night I talked a little bit about how identification with consciousness or with awareness can become the last hideout of self.

And so in one way or another,

we want to begin the investigation

of how to be mindful of the knowing, mindful of awareness of consciousness without identifying

with it.

Allowing it to fulfill its function of cognizing and realizing that that aspect of experience,

the knowing mind, also arises out of conditions, is not I, is not mind, is not self. So the question is how can we begin, just begin to get a glimpse of how to become

mindful of this essential part of our experience, the knowing mind.

To get a glimpse of how we might become mindful of it in a way in which we're cutting through the identification.

The different Buddhist traditions have different techniques for this.

You know, and because within the range of the Buddhist traditions, there's a lot of philosophical differences and differences of methodology.

But the point of all the teachings

in whatever form or method is used is to see the selfless nature, to realize the selfless

nature of whatever's arising.

So there are two approaches that I want to mention now

and then one before we stop walking.

So one of the most classical approaches to becoming mindful of the knowing, mindful of consciousness, is to realize that in every moment two things are happening.

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