Effortless Forum

The mind is empty—not because nothing exists, but because nothing in it is ‘me’ or ‘mine. ’The mind is only a stream of causes unfolding, a meeting of bare knowing and mental constructions.

Mind is made of momentary events:

• Form (visual, sound, smell, taste, touch, memory-imagery)

• Feeling

• Perception

• Mental formation

• Consciousness

These five aggregates arise together to stage what we call “mind.”

Mind = consciousness (bare knowing) + mental formation (thinking, reacting, creating stories)

So among these fleeting events, which one can truly be called “me” or “mine”?