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your mind comes to me. As sensation emerges, the mind moves to sensation. As we feel cold, the mind moves there. This is what we must observe. The feelings of coldness, hotness, softness, hardness, tautness are all characteristics of natural elements (dhata) that emerge when we practice vipassana.
For some, as the hotness emerges, it radiates out. The point to observe is when this hotness emerges—and we use our awareness to experience it—does the hotness accumulate and becomes bigger, or does it emerge at one point and spread out, does the hotness heats up or does it gradually fade away? This is the thing that we must observe—as the hotness emerges, how does it cease? It exists then expires; it emerges then ceases; it exists then disappears. This is the impermanence of the natural elements. The coldness that emerges is the same. We should experience in the same way—as the coldness emerges, how does it change? This is the characteristic of the natural elements that emerge.
When we sit to practice vipassana, if we feel that our body is swaying—what should we do? Sometimes, as we sit, we feel like swaying backward like we are about to fall over. When this happens, we should order it to stop, not follow through. As we order our mind to stop, it will stop. As we stop at each moment and as we sway again then we order it to stop again—our mind will become alert. These phenomena emerge from the power
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