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perceptive. When we add concentration, our mind will be more grounded. When the mind is more grounded, the awareness will be strong. When the awareness is strong, what emerges? Wisdom emerges. Wisdom allows us to understand the impermanence of all the Aggregates.
We are here to practice vipassana, according to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. When we practice this way, our goal is to directly extinguish sufferings. Extinguishment of sufferings leads ultimately to detachment—detachment from what? From watdtasongsaan (Translator’s note: Samsara). What is watdtasongsaan? It is the never-ending cycle of birth and death. We do not know how many cycles of birth and death we have already gone through as we cannot recall our past lives.
The Buddha was able to recall the immeasurable lives he had lived before over an eon. We are not able to recall past lives, but we believe according to what the Buddha said. Many people, when they go to a place they have never been, but feel that they have been there before. How is that possible? Perhaps it is a sign telling us something. Sometimes we go to a certain place, and it feels comfortable like home. That is also another sign.
Watdtasongsaan—our never-ending cycle of birth and death occurs according to the Buddha’s teaching. I have certitude in the Buddha—whatever he said is the
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