I invite you to sit however you find comfortable. And as you settle in, take a few full breaths.
Become aware of how your body feels resting in space. Perhaps where your body is contacting whatever you’re resting on.
I then I invite you to notice your breath. From the moment it starts until the end of exhalation.
Now become aware of sounds and consider that what you hear is impinging on your experience at your ear drums.
You might wonder, who is doing the listening?
As those sound waves cause your tympanic membrane to vibrate, imagine the fluid in your cochlea moving and activating the end of nerve cells.
One could ask, who is doing the listening?
Those nerve cells conduct an impulse into your brain, which inspires other neurons and circuits and patterns to emerge and merge with other activity already inside.
And as those neural patterns make a model of the world you might wonder who is doing the listening.
Within that world, which exists in your brain, there is a model of the body that detects those sounds,
But where is the listener?