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must practice vipassana! When the end comes, when sensations are plenty—our mind will be free from attachments, automatically. Our mind will let go easily and will not attach itself to sensations until gloominess emerges. As we say good-bye to this earth, sensations will emerge—how do we not suffer from sensations? Or, how can sensations not cause our mind to be gloomy? This is to experience sensations within sensations. This is to contemplate the natural conditions that emerge—but, it requires intention.
Natural conditions that emerge, speaking broadly, may be different. But, what is certain is impermanence: Emergence, existence, and cessation. The characteristic of the emergence-cessation of the physical and mental phenomena, we may see emergence state, existence state, or cessation state. Do we notice that sometimes as we contemplate conscious phenomena, as we contemplate the inflate-deflate phenomenon, sometimes we only see inflate, not deflate. Sometimes inflate then disappears. Sometime, we see only deflate. Deflate then disappears, we do not see the inflate state.
Our breathing phenomenon is the same. Sometimes, we only observe the emergence and existence states, but not cessation. Those are characteristics of the natural conditions that are apparent to us. But, above all, it depends on our intention. We must really intend to contemplate. Vipassana requires diligence—diligence