Whatever occurs between these two thoughts is not itself an appearance or activity of the mind; it occurs between two such appearances or activities. And yet whatever happens in that placeless place – placeless because in the absence of the activity of mind no time or space is experienced – gives us the conviction from which we are able to answer ‘Yes’ to the question ‘Am I aware?’ with absolute certainty. In order to answer the question ‘Am I aware?’ we must ‘go to’ the experience of being aware. In other words, we must know the experience of being aware. We must be aware of being aware.
