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81 What is wrong with that? What is wrong with having just
one mind that acts as the experiencer?
Whenever we attach ourselves to the mind and claim it as ours, then it is wrong. The Buddha said that within one snap of a finger, there are innumerable minds that emerge. And, the mind will emerge when there are conscious phenomena to experience. Once it has awareness, the mind ceases. Then, the mind emerges again as new phenomenon emerges. The mind emerges to contemplate and be aware, then it ceases. This is called “perpetual factors” (anantara paccaya)—perpetual emergence without end. The mind experiences then ceases. As this mind ceases, a new mind emerges. How is the new mind “different” from this mind? This is where we will experience how a “pure mind” (citta prabhassara) is. Therefore, the contemplation of the emergence-cessation of the physical and mental phenomena is important. We need to practice to the point of familiarity. And, we need to have a clear intention.
When we do walking meditation, for anyone who still cannot abandon recitation words or are still attached to them, you should attach the words to the phenomenon and observe how the movement phenomenon is. As we move our foot forward, does it move in a linear fashion, like a wave, or are there intermittent cessations then completely disappear? When contemplating the walking phenomenon, sometimes it is clear as we lift our foot,