The Five Aspects of Consciousness

The Buddha said, you know, there's a body there's feeling tones. Mental formations includes both the planning and remembering and also all of the emotional experience that we have it's all a mental formation joy is a thought experienced in the body hatred is a thought also experienced in theBody. Fifth aspect is consciousness. Then I asked you in the meditation to investigate that what is it that's conscious that you're perceiving pleasant and unpleasant and neutralWhat is it that’s conscious that the mind is thinking? What is it that was conscious of the breath? And so he says these five things when you when you have a body and feeling tones and perception and mental formations and consciousness, it