In the ongoingness of matters that is the ordinary course of things, you can't say there is awareness, or that this is phenomena, because you who would say it are inseparably inside the supposed awareness or phenomena. You might call this identification, but you can't yet say what or who is identified with what. It is as though you were trying to see a mirror, but all you can see are the things reflected in it. You know the mirror is what makes these appearances possible (how do you know this?) but since all you can see is appearances you can't rid yourself of the notion that the mirror is just such  a thing, that it is revealed in and by the appearances, that its nature appears. No matter how many and how diverse these appearances are, they bring you no closer to the mirror itself. What awareness is to you is this kaleidoscope of feeling and colour and activity, and that is not it at all. As long as the seeing is absorbed in the seen, you are unable to find any ground to distinguish them. The mirror can't be seen, but what you can apperceive is the space in which the mirror is located, and through this perhaps force a separation in appearances, a separation between the appearance and the appearance of the appearance. This is hard enough, but to do so would enable you to finally speak of phenomena.