To say we have the awareness of the self is to say that we have consciousness of our five senses, body and mind. While senses and body are physiological, the mind or mental consciousness is the interpretation of our material world through contact with the physical component. It can cognise and perceive and has the ability to discern, analyse, organise and store. At an even deeper level of our consciousness lies a "databank" containing the imprints of past experiences and associations from which our beliefs are formed, you may call it supraconsciouness. If you can relate to the saying "what you sow is what you reap", then this is literally where the karmic seeds are laid. What you can eventually grow out of the seeds depends on how the conditions are played out.
But the tenet of our spiritual practice rests on our mental consciousness. The mental consciousness requires an anchor for it to develop, or put it differently, a resting place. This anchor is our intentions. Without intentions, there is no room for the mental and physical components to function and there will be no action and speech to follow. And it goes without saying that there will no medium for our sense organs and mind to interact with external objects and people.
Perhaps it is worth us making the pause and bring more awareness to our own intentions before we become the puppets of our own action and speech.
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