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Therefore, when we contemplate our mind and move it to our hands, our arms, or our brain, we are actually practicing vipassana. In the future, we will become experts at placing our awareness. When we contemplate a phenomenon, where do we place our awareness? Do we place it outside of the phenomenon, or inside it? We are the one who determines. Now, try this—when we look, instead of moving our mind to be at the same place as the object, if we place our mind around here, how does it feel? This is the placement of our awareness, our mind.
Normally, whatever we see, our mind moves to be attached to that object, correct? The mind will move to hit that object. Now, when we look at an object, the mind that is attached to the object and the mind in front of us—how are they different? (A practitioner answers: The mind in front of us is clearer). Which one feels more comfortable? (A practitioner answers: The mind in front of us). Residing outside is more comfortable. Here, when the mind experiences any conscious phenomenon, we will pull that phenomenon into our mind. Or, do we extinguish that phenomenon outside there? It is said that if it emerges there, it should cease there. (Translator’s note: Referring to the phenomenon) But, for us, it emerges there but always ceases here. As we experience it, it immediately impacts our mind. Then we complain: “It is heavy.” If the phenomenon is powerful, as we experience it, it
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