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immediately hits our mind—we feel colicky, cramped and unable to breathe. Why? This is because we pull that phenomenon inside.
Now, as I said to move our mind and to make our mind wider than our body. Try it. What are the benefits of making our mind wider than our body? This needs to be experimented. Now, make our mind wider than our body, encompass our body, and observe the phenomenon that emerges—does it get to the body or does it stay in an empty space? The sound that we hear, does it get into the ears or does it stay in an empty space? Let the mind encompass the body widely, not narrowly, make it comfortable. How does it feel? (A practitioner answers: It stays outside). When we experience this, does it get to the mind? No, correct. Does defilement occur? This is what we must observe. Practitioners must observe, not just believe. We must wilfully contemplate, we must observe well. We cannot think something is good or not good just because we are told so.
We must analyze and observe—what are the benefits? The things we do—are they good or not good, and how? We must be able to answer ourselves. That is why I have told you to be aware that if we practice vipassana, what do we get? We do not need others to tell us that we are getting this and that. I also get something by being glad that you practice vipassana well. When I tell you that you practice well, you are unsure in what