Awareness is the Seer, Mind is the Seen
Awareness is the light that illuminates all experience. Awareness is the silent witness that observes thoughts arising and passing, emotions shifting, perceptions changing. As the unmovable witnessing presence, awareness, the seer, is distinct from the seen.
Thinking and perceiving occur in the mind, but the mind lacks the capacity to comprehend the infinite awareness out of which it is made. Mind is simply the ongoing flow of that awareness manifesting in a particular way. All activities of the mind, the patterns and the promptings, arise within awareness and are known by awareness.
Fundamentally, awareness is always the seer while the mind is always the seen, and throughout all experience, awareness remains the same.
By recognizing our self not as a limited mind but as the illuminating presence of awareness, the mind is free to continue with its endeavors, but we are no longer lost in its movements.