  Consciousness will be introduced axiomatically, inspired by Buddhist insight
meditation and psychology, logic in computer science, and cognitive
neuroscience, as consisting of a stream of $configurations$ that is $compound$,
$discrete$, and (non-deterministically) $computable$. Within this context the
notions of self, concentration, mindfulness, and various forms of suffering can
be defined. As an application of this set up, it will be shown how a combined
development of concentration and mindfulness can attenuate and eventually
eradicate some of the forms of suffering.
