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whenever we lack awareness, it is not good, as sufferings can emerge easily. And, if we do not have wisdom, we would be stuck with the suffering for a long time. Without awareness, without wisdom, sufferings emerge easily and they stay with us for a long time. But, a person who has wisdom and awareness—as soon as sufferings emerge, he/she will extinguish it promptly. Therefore, we need to bring awareness and wisdom into our everyday lives. Do not separate dhamma from life, because dhamma is life.
When we say “Contemplating Dhamma”, what exactly are we contemplating? We contemplate the conscious phenomena of the body and the mind, correct? These body and mind are our lives. When we go home, do we leave these body and mind here and assume new ones at home? No. These are the body and mind that go home, stay at home. We come here to develop our awareness, our wisdom. We are here to understand the nature of physical and mental phenomena. We rely on our awareness, our wisdom to be free from sufferings—this is the key.
The dhamma that we contemplate here, we see “non-self”. We do not contemplate only the body and the mind but all the conscious phenomena that emerge from the six apertures: Corporeality, smell, taste, touch and mind-object (dhammarom). Why do we use the awareness to contemplate all the minor bodily movements? This is