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mind for vipassana and contemplate the emergence- cessation of that noise, to see how it emerges and ceases— does it emerge and scatter out or fade away or flash out? When we contemplate this emergence-cessation phenomenon, our annoyance will cease. Firstly, we will no longer have the feelings of annoyance or agitation. Secondly, we will gain discriminative wisdom, cultivate awareness and gain concentration. If we do not reject any phenomenon, every conscious phenomenon could be used for meditative practice.
This is why it is said that physical phenomenon, sound, smell, flavour, touch, and mental phenomenon are all phenomena that we should contemplate. This means that every conscious phenomenon can be meditative phenomenon when we have the intention to contemplate how it emerges and ceases. Why? When we contemplate the emergence-cessation of the sound that occurs, our mind will not fabricate. There is no feeling of like or dislike, only how the noise emerges and ceases. Better still, when we contemplate the emergence-cessation of that noise, we should put our mind or our awareness in the same place as the sound. Observe that when the noise ceases at each moment, does our mind or our awareness cease as well?
When we contemplate this way, we are really using our discriminative wisdom. In addition to not fabricating, there is another benefit. When we practice vipassana, we