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We are here to train our awareness, to contemplate dhamma. We are here to make our awareness experience— in a timely manner—conscious phenomena that emerge. When we are here, we make our movements slower, but we train our awareness to be quicker. This is what we can use when we get back home. We are here to practice vipassana, to cultivate mindfulness, to continuously train our awareness. If we have the awareness to continuously contemplate our phenomena, practice until we are adept—called “wasi”. As we move, regardless of what is the movement, we are immediately aware. As we begin to think, we are immediately aware that we are thinking. As we see, we know clearly what we are seeing. Know straightaway, feel straightaway—our mind is quick.
The difference is that here in this place to practice vipassana, we have the intention mainly to experience the emergence-cessation of the physical and mental phenomena, to experience the Three Characteristics of Being (Trilaksana). But, when we go home, do we still need to pay attention to the Three Characteristics of Being? Yes, but the characteristics which are descriptive reality (banyat). For example, when we experience the emergence-cessation phenomenon here, at present, while we practice vipassana every day, we are actually experiencing the Three Characteristics of Being. When we experience the emergence-cessation of the physical and mental phenomena, have we ever observed—what these