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the world or that we are attached to beauty. It is simply that when our mind is wholesome or happy, the world will appear beautiful.
How about the teaching that we should not be attached to happiness? The happiness here still has consistent changes. When happiness emerges, use the awareness to experience it, to see how it changes. Does the happiness become more and more refined? This is the thing that we must contemplate. If we see the changes here, we would not be attached to happiness because happiness is not permanent. It is not that happiness turns into sufferings, happiness then sufferings, happiness then sufferings. Rather, happiness has different levels of refinement. This is to experience our mind sensations. The mind that changes from unrefined to refined. All these, we need to contemplate in order to experience, not just to “think” (Translator’s note: That they change).
When we contemplate the mind within the mind, experience the happiness, observe whether it is wider and more refined. Contemplating the mind within the mind has three components. One, know how the mind is. Is it heavy, light, happy, peaceful? Two, know what the mind is thinking, thinking about what? This is descriptive reality. But, if we know how thoughts emerge and how they cease, this is vipassana—to experience the emergence-cessation of the thoughts phenomenon. Finally, once the mind that experiences all the phenomena
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