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Experiencing the Natural Conditions within Satipatthana 4
(The Four Foundation of Mindfulness)
Dhamma greetings to all practitioners. Please sit comfortably. When listening to dhamma, sit comfortably and if you could, practice along. However, if you could not, that is okay. After listening to you relating your vipassana experience for one day, I feel that practitioners are beginning to better understand the way to practice vipassana. Now, I would like to refresh once again the way to practice vipassana or to contemplate the conscious phenomena that emerge. To wilfully contemplate Satipatthana 4 (The Four Foundation of Mindfulness), we need to contemplate the key phenomena. These are: Experiencing the physical body within the physical body, experiencing the sensation within the sensation, experiencing the mind within the mind, and experiencing dhamma within dhamma. This morning, a practitioner asked how to contemplate Satipatthana 4. What is experiencing the physical body within the physical body? What is experiencing the mind within the mind? How to experience the sensation within the sensation? I have briefly explained this but we will review it again here.
Experiencing the physical body within the physical body has two parts—the body itself and the bodily
