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as if the physical body ceases. The ultimate reality shows the Three Characteristics of Beings—it has no form, no solidness, no story, but still it shows the emergence- cessation continuously. This is experiencing the physical body within the physical body.
In addition to experiencing the impermanence; ever-changing, and ever-emerging and ceasing characteristics, we should also observe whether the mind or the awareness that acts as the experiencer of the conscious phenomena, and the conscious phenomena— are they one of the same. Yes, they are separate. Since they are separate, what tell us that they are “us”? Can the physical body tell us that it is “us”? Can the mind or the awareness tell us that it is “us”? Or, is there just the experiencer—only the awareness to contemplate? There is only the mind that acts as an experiencer to experience conscious phenomena that emerge—be it the rippling phenomenon, the moving phenomenon, or the emergence-cessation phenomenon. There is only the awareness to act as the experiencer.
Now that we see this characteristic of the physical and mental phenomena, the question is: Should we be attached to them and claim them as ours? We should contemplate that if we claim them as ours, what are the consequences? This we can investigate. Dhamma teaches us to remove the feeling of “self”. Once we do that, what is the condition of our mind? When we add the feeling
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