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of “self”, how do we feel? This is the way to extinguish the feeling of “self”. When we see that the corporeality is not permanent and is forever changing—it emerges and then ceases. The physical body does not declare that it is “us”. The mind does not declare that it is “us”. We can really see this, we can really feel this. This is seeing things as they are—not according to our imagination. This results from our deliberation, our contemplation and our observation. This is discriminative wisdom.
“Samma-ditthi” (right view) is the clear knowledge that the physical and mental phenomena are separate; that they emerge and cease continuously, and that they are not permanent. This is to contemplate the physical body within the physical body. When we contemplate this way, we feel that our mind is free of attachments— free from the conviction that this corporeality belongs to us. What is to be “free from attachments”? What is “the characteristics of the mind that is not attached to this corporeality”? How does it feel? Clear, unburdened, light—these are the characteristics of the mind that is free from attachments. It will emerge once we have removed the attachments. We could really feel the condition of the mind if we could really remove the attachments.
Sometimes, when conscious phenomena impact our six apertures—we hear, we see, we touch, we taste, we smell, and a sense of “self” emerges. The feeling of “us” occurs. What should we do? We have to consider