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This comfortable mind, just now we were able to expand it outside of our body. Now, when our mind is happy, we could make this happy mind wider. The important thing is to experience clearly that our happy mind could be moved. For example, move this happy mind in front of us, move it to our hand, send the happy mind to our house. Why do we do this? So that when we spread loving-kindness or happiness or merits to our benefactors, our friends, our relatives, our siblings—we could send these merits. This is the way to make our mind empty and unburdened, and to humbly bring in happiness and merits into ourselves.
Practitioner: If we are attached to anything—be it corporeality, taste, aroma, sound, material objects—the key to resolve this is to constantly make our mind empty and unburdened, correct?
Phra Arjan: Yes. If we are still attached to corporeality, taste, aroma, sound, touch, and mind objects, the way to resolve this is to use an unburdened mind to experience all these conscious phenomena. Then, the attachment will disappear. Why? Observe that whenever we use an unburdened mind to experience phenomena, we will see that the unburdened mind and those phenomena are not related. And, there is a gap between our mind and the phenomena. When there is a gap, the mind will not attach. Observe that if the phenomena are inside our mind, there is no gap. Therefore, attachment
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