From Daniel Ingram’s Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha (slatestarcodex review):
Immediately after a physical sensation arises and passes is a discrete pulse of reality that is the mental knowing of that physical sensation, here referred to as “mental consciousness” (as contrasted with the problematic concept of “awareness” in Part Five). By physical sensations I mean the five senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching, and I guess you could add some proprioceptive, other extended sensate abilities and perhaps a few others, but for traditional purposes, let’s stick to these five. This habit of creating a mental impression following any of the physical sensations is the standard way the mind operates on phenomena that are no longer actually there, even mental sensations such as seemingly auditory thoughts, that is, mental talk (our inner “voice”), intentions, and mental images. It is like an echo, a resonance. The mind forms a general impression of the object, and that is what we can think about, remember, and process. Then there may be a thought or an image that arises and passes, and then, if the mind is stable, another physical pulse.
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From Daniel Ingram’s Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha (slatestarcodex review):
Wow! That looks like a great book. Although one can find out by following the links you provided, I’d like to tell everyone here that the book is available for free on the author’s website (PDF, epub, mobi).