When we walk mindfully, all four layers of consciousness are operating.

If you are absorbed in deep reflection, you don’t see, you don’t hear, you don’t touch anymore. In that deep place of reflection, mind consciousness is working alone.

So using mind consciousness is very expensive. Thinking, worrying, and planning take a lot of energy.

Mind consciousness is, at various times, all fifty-one mental formations, be they positive, negative, or neutral.

Thinking without a thinker. Feeling without a feeler. What is our anger without our “self”? This is the object of our meditation. All the fifty-one mental formations take place and manifest without a self behind them arranging for this to appear, and then for that to appear.

It’s very important to surround yourself with people who have loving kindness, understanding, and compassion, because day and night we are influenced by the collective consciousness.

When you walk, who do you walk for? You can walk to get somewhere but you can also walk as a kind of meditative offering. It’s very nice to walk for your parents or for your grandparents who may not have known the practice of walking in mindfulness.

Store consciousness operates in the absence of mind consciousness. It can do a lot of things. It can do a lot of planning; it can make a lot of decisions without your knowing about it.

We shouldn’t say that consciousness is born from the brain, because the opposite is true: the brain is born from consciousness.