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Try to shift the lightness to your arm. How does the arm feel? Does it feel heavy or light? Shift this lightness to your brain. How does it feel? We are not talking about the shape of the brain. If we look for the shape of the brain, then we are observing the physical phenomenon. How do you feel? Clear? Correct.
When we move our mind that is light, we are shifting our awareness. Therefore, when we wilfully contemplate the conscious phenomenon, we can see clearly that our awareness is right where the phenomenon is. However, the observer is in another place. Just now, when the arm felt heavy—it was because the mind has not shifted to arm, but remained an observer of the arm. When we shift our mind to the brain, we are not just observing the shape of the brain. Our mind, which is light, moves right into the brain. The brain will feel uncluttered and light.
Now, expand this mind that is light to be as big as this area, as big as this room. How do you feel? Does it feel uncluttered? Observe this uncluttered mind—does it feel unburdened? Yes. Observe whether this uncluttered, unburdened mind and the body that sits here—are they one, or separate? Yes, they are separate. Which entity is bigger? Yes, the mind is bigger. This is what we call separating the physical and mental phenomena. Your mind is a mental phenomenon and your body is a physical phenomenon. A mind that is light can experience all the conscious phenomena.