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we use re ects our understanding. We think it is like that. Therefore, I ask you to observe more details; to observe well. Why do we need to observe well? To see whether our understanding of the natural conditions that we experience—is our understanding correct? If we understand correctly according to the natural conditions—this is good. But, if we observe a little more—what we understand before, after a careful scrutiny, oh it is not like that. This is for clarity. This is a type of wisdom—the wisdom to know the real natural condition.
And, when contemplating the state of mind, the key thing is to contemplate the state of mind that one depends on. As I have said: Contemplate the state of mind frequently. This means the main job (Translator’s note: For practitioners) is (to contemplate) the state of mind, and how the state of mind has changed from before. Even the unclutteredness, the resplendence of our mind: Previously they were like that—how have they changed from before? Why? By contemplating the state of mind here, one thing is that it tells us how our state of mind has changed from before. In the past, how were our de lements? Now, the de lements that reside in our state of mind—have they increased or decreased? Even if we cannot tell whether our anger (dosa) or our delusion (moha) have disappeared or have decreased, but we can feel that they are less than before.