In all these cases the subject - the one who is thinking, knowing, experiencing or perceiving - is the ego the object is whatever it thinks, knows, experiences or perceives and the action that connects these two is the subject’s thinking, knowing, experiencing or perceiving. Other examples of a tripuṭi include the knower, its knowing and whatever it knows the experiencer, its experiencing and whatever it experiences and the perceiver, its perceiving and whatever it perceives. The thinker, its thinking and its thoughts together form a tripuṭi, a triad consisting of the three factors entailed in any form of objective (or transitive) knowledge or experience, namely the subject, the object and whatever action connects these two. Therefore it is necessary for us to clearly distinguish the thinker from its thinking, and also from whatever it thinks. To investigate this ego we must ignore all thinking and observe only the thinker, the one who is aware of thinking and of the thoughts produced by thinking.
If the ego were the act of thinking, we could investigate it simply by observing our thinking, which is obviously not the case.
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