The Mystery of Consciousness

In Buddhism, mental constructs and feelings are part of what's called the five scandas. Everything that we think of as an eye, a me, is a function of the scandas: physical body, eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, mind, feeling. The nature of consciousness is a huge mystery. It's our basic awareness of being a self, which requires the other force for scandas to work. And then that's the mystery that we're exploring.