Meditation: 'I' is the Ever Present Element of Experience

... aka known as the dualistic model. We consider ourselves to be made of two components. 

"I" is that which knows the world. The one that perceives the world through our mind and interacts with it through our body. 

Our experience of the world/reality is made of:

• perceptions: how we experience the world through our 5 senses.
• sensations: how we experience ourselves, our feelings and thoughts.

All of these experience are discontinuous. However the "I" is continuous. While experiences come and go, we persist. There is a continuous knower of these these discontinuous experience. The only continuous experience is that of being aware. It is the irreducible, indestructible element of our existence.

This is what is called the Non-Dualistic model, going against the dual mind/body conventional way of thinking.

Awareness primary experience is to know itself. The I that knows is the I that is known.

The only way to know our true self is to be. Directing our attention to it does not work because awareness knows itself. Focus our attention forces the object-knowing mind relation. 

"Be aware of the experience of being aware. Relax your attention, let in."