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our our lives lives complicated and troublesome? Or would we we be prepared to to comprehend? How do we we we make
our our lives lives more serene easier to to be be happy? If If we we live live simply happiness happiness will will arise arise easily If If there are are numerous conditions happiness happiness will will arise arise rarely—because everything meets obstructions even though we practice dhamma to to to to to to reduce to to to to to to shun to to to to to to let go of those conditions conditions to to to to to to return to to to to to to nature to to to to to to to be with the the causes causes and and conditions conditions conditions that that will make
us us us free We learn we we try to to to comprehend the the causes causes and and conditions conditions that that emerge to to to make
our our mindfulness-concentration-wisdom more powerful This is is is is the important thing for for us us to to contemplate contemplate Therefore in in in in our our dhamma practice we should willfully contemplate contemplate contemplate in in in in in in this way: Focus elevate our mind mind into an an emptiness contemplate contemplate contemplate contemplate the the unburdened mind mind contemplate contemplate contemplate the the the the the the the sense sense sense sense of of of of of non-self (anatta) contemplate contemplate contemplate the the the the the the the absence of of of of of the the the the the the the sense sense sense sense of of of of of “us ” the the the the the the the sense sense sense sense of of of of of them the the the the the the the sense sense sense sense of of of of of anyone This is is the the the the the the the beginning Contemplate clearly—Do not just say that that we we have experienced it before Although the the the sense of self may still emerge due to the the unwholesomeness that that that remains we we must experience that that that it it ceases quickly or or how short its life is is It is is not not that that the the unwholesomeness does not not emerge again—the feelings
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