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Originally Posted by Gem
The basis of Gotama's teachings is to acknowledge ones own suffering, find the cause, and thus end suffering.
Most of us suffer and find cause in external things that hurt us. This means suffering is linked to sensation. The question is, does sensation cause suffering, or is it the way we relate to sensation that is cause?
In the meditation, mindfulness, we are aware of ourselves, body, mind, emotion, just as they are as they happen to arise. The obstacle to this is 'distraction'. We can drift off into autopilot and become unconscious of what is actually happening, and instead, live in an imaginary world created in reaction to the actual real lived experience.
In sitting practice we soon see we are aware of our sensation and thought, and then we drift away into imaginary pasts, futures and fantasies. It's not bad or incorrect to do this. The meditation practice just enables a conscious recognition of it. Now you know, 'so this is what I do'.
From that preliminary, the the same process of being aware, noticing and discovering continues, revealing the truth about ourselves. Through this process of 'sati' we soon come to learn about how we relate to sensation - including physical, emotional and psychological - and come to realise how we cause our own suffering by relating to sensation in a somewhat delusional way.
Once this cause is identified, each new arising of suffering is recognised as 'something I do', rather than 'something that happens to me'... and we are thereby led to understand the way to bring suffering to an end.
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I am beginning to see that it's not even that, something I do. It's the condition the mind is in, restless, lazy, unstill.
I say it is not something I do because it is that same mind that sees itself as restless that sees itself as the I that is in something I do. That mind does not know who I is. I am beginning tibsee this I as the feeling or power of God or Self relating to itself and a clear still mind is the vehicle in which it does this.
It's God relating to itself thru it's creation which is its power and this can only be reflected thru a clear mind.
I'm not really disagreeing with what you said, I'm expanding on it as it is unfolding for me.