At the most superficial level of the mind we encounter the conditioned stream of consciousness that tries to perpetuate its content and apply it to the mind as a whole in our attempts to adapt to it so that what is not allowed to belong to it that makes us feel rejected and inadequate is left out. In order to feel a sense of belonging to the absolute ground within us that gives us access to the mind as a whole and the parts that form a greater living scope of consciousness we replace that with perceptions and ideas of them, because we have come to mistake the stream of consciousness for the unconditioned contents that have their inlet in it and the body as an extension of it together with what it conveys. Often to our surprise because we have not yet developed a relationship to the content of this larger scale of the mind beyond consciousness, which it supply us with, regardless of how we choose to relate to it or just try to ignore what that content equip us with. Instead we habitually invent a fragile whole of concepts, labels and perceptions that constantly fall apart from the vastness of the raw, unprocessed and direct experience to which the content of our mental reality exposes us. Beyond consciousness, in the environment that encompasses it, and in the mental nothingness that constitutes its interstices and the absolute ground within us, we have always tried to formulate the influence that arises there and involves itself in our lives as the processes within us that their mental states put us into when we find ourselves in their presence. In our attempts to materialize it, to formulate it in concepts and beliefs, we have called them many things. But in our own relationship to them, this content and the vastness of its origin go beyond this in a way that we can only reach individually and through the experiences we have of it. This is what we share with everyone else. If, for various reasons, we cannot bring ourselves to pay attention to it, there is a great risk that we will begin to drift aimlessly within ourselves, or in an overly determined manner, perpetuate the conscious content that suits us best and make it permanent in our attempts to maintain a prepared and fragile version of what we want to be for others. Our surface consciousness will use labels and conventional perceptions and tell us that this is nothing more than the subconscious. But I am referring to something much more voluminous, alive and independent of us than that. As this something whose content which encompasses consciousness affects the surface sense, and as they reciprocally affect each other, they are creating what we then perceive as our stream of consciousness. That experience comes out of the full extent of the content we reach in the absolute foundation of our being. I am not referring to the ego at all here. Because it constitutes a small part of consciousness itself and the changing stream of consciousness it anxiously confines itself to. This is a different kind of attention. A perspective that listens to life from the absolute fundamental ground of our being.