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Elevated? The feeling of stress will ease. As the feeling of stress eases, the sensation phenomenon (Translator’s note: Pain in this case) would emerge more slowly.
Does it feel good to sit in an elevated manner? Y es? Actually, we do not just aim to sit in an elevated and light manner. Rather, our intention is to use an unburdened mind to experience the conscious phenomenon. When we sit, we sit in an empty space. When we walk, we use the light and unburdened mind to encompass our body and attach it to the walking movement. We do all this so that we could experience all phenomena with “non-self”— without fabrication and without unwholesomeness. We do not fabricate likes and dislikes but we are aware of what is good and what is bad; heavy or light; discontented, neutral, or heavy. But, not likes or dislikes. Likes or dislikes lead to defilements. But, to know good or bad, heavy or light, discontent or neutral—these all arise from our discriminative wisdom (panya).
We practice vipassana in order to extinguish our suffering (dukkha), correct? Therefore, observe what causes this suffering. This is easy to experiment. Just now, without the feeling of “self”, how do we feel? (A practitioner answers: Light). When we feel light, unburdened and comfortable, try injecting the feeling of “self”—how do we feel? Suddenly heavy, correct? This is a habit—a habit of claiming this body to be ours. When we have this “self”, the heaviness will appear.
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