Living in the Present Is Not Sufficient

Living in the present is not sufficient. It's necessary, but not sufficient. What takes us from black lab consciousness to the quality of mind that actually leads us to awakening? So we might call this meta m e t a, meta cognition. There's a kind of stepping back, or understanding, being aware that we're aware. In both cases, thoughts are happening. That's what the experiences of thinking do. But in the first situation, we're not aware that we'm thinking. We're totally caught up in it. And i think points to this, that living in the present isn't enough. I want reality.