Page 129 - Extinguishment of self, in search of dhamma

Observe: When we practice in this way, we experience the emergence-cessation of the physical and mental phenomena that are the natural conditions. We do not need to distinguish whether we extinguish anger (dosa) this much; we extinguish delusion (moha) this much. Instead, we observe but we hardly experience them (anger and delusion), or they are much less than before. We do not experience that we extinguish anger by this much or that much, but we can hardly feel it. Is this strange? (No), this is because we do not contemplate to speci cally extinguish de lements. We simply know that we extinguish sufferings. When (sufferings) impact us, then we feel uncomfortable, annoyed; but once we extinguish the annoyance, it ceases. Where does the annoyance come from? Discomfort emerges from anger, delusion. But, once they are extinguished, the mind becomes resplendent. We do not use the term “de lement” at all—we only know that when we become aware (Translator’s note: Of anger, delusion), we extinguish them. The emergence-cessation of the physical and mental phenomena; unwholesomeness emerges then ceases—the mind becomes more wholesome and more resplendent than before.
Therefore, when we say that we will ght against de lements, how are we ghting them? We feel that de lements are not our enemy. We stay in the present; we experience the emergence-cessation of the physical and mental phenomena. Then, they (de lements) will not emerge
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