If you focus on an object, say your breath, then you must first hold the field in which both what is breath and what is attention are known, but then this field of knowing, which is not the same as your attention is where the experience actually takes place. It is a field of relations in which mind and object can appear as the relata. Otherwise mind could not know anything that was not mind, that is, if the relata were independent entities they could never come into relation. The same hold for the relations forming the field of relations, these must already be continuous with each other. If this is called mind in a larger sense then it 'thinks' in a way that bears little resemblance to the self-understanding of thinking which makes up your individual mind.