Day 13 of 365: Discrimination/Perception

Discrimination, also called Formation, is the moment of recognition of input through the senses.  Khenpo uses the example of perceiving the color blue.  When we experience the color blue, we notice (we recognize that it is the color blue).  When we hear a baby cry, we know very quickly and not really with any thought that it is a baby crying.  As with feeling, the stream of recognition is continuous.  How do we identify with this skandha?  This skandha is changing so much that, again, I don't really feel I identify with it as "me", which I experience as singular, lasting, and independent.   I do, however, take perception just as personally as feeling.  We can look at both the perception itself and examine it closely, and we can look for the one doing the recognition.  How do we take the perception itself as real?  How do we take ourselves as real as we are doing this labeling?  We can deconstruct either or apply a causality argument between the sense object and the perception.  The process of feeling and perception is so habituated and so earnest--almost paranoid actually.  We feel we must maintain the fortress of ego by shoring up any possible ambiguity in experience.  And, it seems, personally speaking, that this happens very automatically through our habituated attitude towards the process of feeling and discrimination.  Our habit is to feel uncertain when we don't know how we feel or what something is...and to immediately want to cover up the uncertainty.

Does anyone feel like looking for the self in the skandhas is like finding the ball under the cup?