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The Intention to Contemplate the Emergence-Cessation of the Physical and Mental Phenomena
Dhamma blessings to all practitioners. Today is the third day that we are here together, to practice vipassana. After three day, how do you feel? Do you begin to understand? I wish to refresh for you how to contemplate natural conditions during vipassana. In actual fact, some of you have already practiced vipassana for quite a while. Some of you have practiced for a long time, and are doing well.
Now, the way to contemplate the conscious phenomena or the natural conditions that emerge—many of you still have questions whether what you are doing is correct or incorrect. Furthermore, some of you are not certain which phenomenon should be contemplated. For example, when we practice vipassana, what is the key conscious phenomenon that we should contemplate? As we experience, should we contemplate the inflate- deflate phenomenon mainly, or should we contemplate the breathing phenomenon mainly? Here, we need to be fully aware, at that present moment, what conscious phenomenon we are contemplating.
The most important point about vipassana is to have the intention. That is, when conscious phenomenon
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