„You can recognize many of the features of consciousness just by paying closer attention to what its like to listen and understand anything what’s being said. If you’re a speaker of English you understand what I’m saying. And you could notice that there’s no one doing any of that.
You have no control over this, there’s no place from which you’re doing it, you don’t know how you’re doing it. This all just a mystery. It’s completely mysterious how this is happening. And there’s no place for you to stand where you could stop this process. This goes to the question of free will.
If you have free will, it doesn’t even extent to the point of you being able to decide to not hear what I’m saying, or upon hearing it, not to understand it. This is all happening by itself, from your point of view as consciousness. And everything is like that.
The next thought that arises in your own mind, simply arises. You don’t author it before it arises. And the next sound, and the next sensation. And even if you’re paying attention in your practice and really deliberately trying to control your attention, attention is dancing around various objects and the precise pattern of its dancing is not something you have any control over.
If something captures your attention in this moment, that just happens to you. In precisely the same way this next syllable from me happens, and your understanding of it as a word happens.“
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