Yet when a powerful emotion is in full spate, it is not possible to concentrate on anything else. Even if a distraction would normally interest me, I cannot give it my full attention, as the anger will not let me go. Thus we can see that such a state, with its accompanying thoughts and wishes, fears and hopes and imaginings, expectations and longings, is not mine. As anyone involved in a Buddhist training knows, these forces are constantly creating distractions from this moment, and this me is generated by those selfsame states from moment to moment. Everything manifests itself through Consciousness.
Nothing can come into existence without it.
Ajahn Chah once gave a beautiful metaphor for just this. He likened meditation to a pool in a forest. Day after day animals come to drink from it. All of them come for a long or short time but sooner or later they all disappear back into the darkness of the forest. Finally, we must understand that the insight within the Five Skandhas does not arise by me intellectually puzzling things out.