1. If an experience of whatever kind is not always with you, then it cannot be identical with you.

2. Possible experience types include perceiving, sensing, thinking, feeling, and acting.

3. Explore perceiving: Is hearing, seeing, touching, tasting, or smelling always with you? (a) See what it’s like to directly understand that none of these perceptual experiences are always with you. (b) Directly understand that you are not identical with any perceptual experiences.

4. Explore sensing: Is this bodily sensation always with you? (a) See what it’s like to directly understand that no bodily sensation–including the superimposed experience “pain”–is always with you. (b) Directly understand that you are not identical with any sensations.

5. Explore thinking and feeling: Is thought or that feelings always with you? (a) See what it’s like to directly understand that no thought or feeling–including I-thoughts like “I am small and insignificant” and me-feelings like sadness or nervousness–is always with you. (b) Directly understand that you are not identical with any thoughts or feelings.

4. Explore acting: Is this movement–the waving of the hand, say, or the swiveling of the head–with you? (a) See what it’s like to directly understand that no movement is always with you. (b) Directly understand that you are not identical with any movements.

5. Be, therefore, the background of all objective experiences. Be This wakefully.