We all have what's called awareness, the part of the mind that observes.

Literally, if you want to know, it's probably, don't need to know this, but it's largely situated in a region called

the cingulate, and you've got a left cingulate and a right cingulate. You pretty much

always got mirror versions of everything in the brain.

Your love singular controls your attention when you want to focus on something.

Your right thing is that part of your mind that keeps pulling your attention to really unpleasant memories or to people that you're attached to when you're ruminating about a relationship.

And so when you wake up in the morning

and you're groggy and you can't focus

and you drink a cup of coffee,

what it's doing is it's adding a whole bunch of acetylene which strengthens the

cingulate that allows you to then focus your awareness and sustain it.

Now your awareness and sustain it. Now your awareness is capable of pretty much holding many, many different objects in its observing faculty, but your singular in it of itself, it doesn't do anything, it doesn't

have any ability to act in the world it simply observes. And generally it feels pretty vulnerable

and powerless unless if and the rest of your awareness becomes identified or lands in other parts of the brain that are active and

volitional and can make you do things and can make you feel more substantial and presence in the world.

So the Buddha said at any given moment our awareness collapses around one of five experiences or components or aggregates as he called

them. The first floor really easy to list and explain. You can become aware of your body and the sensations of your body and

sometimes we're just really aware of our body feeling.

We can become aware of our gut feelings, that sense of intuition, that feeling of like or dislike in any situation.

We can become aware of the senses that are arriving into the mind, sights, sounds, smells or aromas, tastes,

contact sensations with the world and forth there is our thoughts

now any of those things your mind your awareness can collapse around and you can fill up your awareness with and feel quite

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