Consciousness itself is arising and passing away in each instant. There is not one mind that is observing all phenomena; at every instant “mind” is created and destroyed. 
 

Joseph Goldstein (1944 CE--), Joseph Goldstein, one of the first American vipassana teachers, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society, author of numerous popular books and resident guiding teacher, and leader of retreats worldwide on insight (vipassana) and lovingkindness (metta) meditation.