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and our mindfulness. Therefore, they are a type of natural conditions that emerge for us to experience. They are conscious phenomena that practitioners need to contemplate to see how they emerge and cease. Now, you see that to experience the physical body within the physical body; to experience sensations within sensations; and to experience dhamma within dhamma—these are all natural conditions that emerge. They are not the conscious phenomena of our breathing; they are not the conscious phenomena of our physical bodies.
As for sensations, most practitioners here know that sensations that emerge are a natural phenomenon of our bodies. They are nothing extraordinary. What is extraordinary is for us to have the mindfulness to wilfully contemplate sensations that emerge. The extraordinariness will occur when we have the mindfulness to contemplate the emergence-cessation phenomenon of the sensations; to see how they transform or how they emerge and cease. We should also try to see how the emergence-cessation phenomenon of the sensations changes. This is the way to astutely enhance our wisdom.
Vedananupassana: The wilful contemplation of the sensations phenomenon. Physical sensations that emerge are normal and they constantly change. For most people who are unclear about how to contemplate sensations, when physical sensations emerge, they will chant (Translator’s