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If you intend to do ‘Cittanupassana’, I would have advice as follows:

You should see that your mind thinks (not you think). If the mind is greed, lust or desire, then aware that the mind is greed, lust or desire (as the case may be). No you in such thinking and knowing. There is only the mind working by itself. Those greed, lust or desire come and go by themselves. Those greed, lust or desire are not your mind (as they come and go temporarily), and are not you as well. Your mind is not your body and not you. (This way is to practice separate aggregates.)

Once you aware that your mind is thinking, thinking will disappear for a short moment. Then, your mind thinks again. During you aware that your mind is thinking, you have ‘Sati’ (awareness). Sati is also subject to the three ‘Samannalakkhana’, i.e. ‘Anicca’, ‘Dukkha’, and ‘Annatta’. So, we cannot control ‘Sati’ and we cannot hold ‘Sati’ for long. However, we can practice our mind so that Sati could occur automatically, faster and more often.

As I mentioned in another thread that you should practice to aware your mind and body as real time, if you wonder whether what to do next, then be aware that your mind wonders at such time. Then wondering will disappear as Sati comes, Sati will not appear at the same time with Moha (delusion), Dosa (angry) and Lobha (wanting). Wondering is a kind of Moha and then Lobha (wanting to know) may follow. At this stage, please practice to have more and more ‘Sati’ in each day. You should also see that your mind works by itself (‘Annatta’), and unstable (‘Anicca’).

If you practice this for a certain period, e.g. one or two weeks, you should see that your mind thinks and then you aware that your mind thinks. Then your mind thinks and you aware that your mind thinks. Question is who aware that your mind thinks. In fact and by natural, one mind occurs and ends rapidly, but we never notice this. Once you aware that your mind is thinking, the one which aware is not you but it is another mind which occurs after the mind which thinks. After the mind (which thought) ended, the mind (which aware that the previous mind thinks) occurs. The mind which thinks could be called ‘doer’, and the mind which aware could be called ‘knower’.

You may see some of us talking about ‘knower’ and ‘doer’ in other threads in this BWB.