| USA Maui Retreat 2016 11/16 Opening Instructions (19:56-21:10)
When we know our 6 senses – which are seeing, smelling, hearing, touching, tasting – these 5, and our mental activities – what is going on in our mind; our thinking and our feeling – that’s when we’re aware. When we can recognize our body-and-mind‘s activities, that’s when we are aware.
This is because what we can truly experience is only ourselves, only our senses. We can’t experience the sunlight or the grass – we can experience the process of seeing, thinking and feeling; that seeing, thinking and feeling are happening.