That is a very wonderful essay.

I often listen to lectures on the Satipatthana Sutta, and I am always hopping up and down in my chair when the person giving the discourse gets to the part "breathing in long, the meditator knows I breath in long" etc. I have listened to many many many discourses and every teacher mentions the breathing, but no one ever mentions the knowing! In the terms you are describing, what do you make of "the knowing" that is mentioned over and over in the Satipatthana Sutta?

EDIT: Sorry this was meant to go in the pre existing "Responses to Consciousness and Primordial Awareness" thread, I didn't mean to start a whole new thread.