Page 23 - Extinguishment of self, in search of dhamma

Therefore, by having the mindfulness to contemplate one’s own state of mind; to experience the mind within the mind, this will help us to protect our mind. How do we keep our mind at peace? How do we make our mind alert? When we feel gloomy or when sloth and drowsiness (thina- middha) emerge, what can we do? This is experiencing the mind within the mind. Therefore, the principles of vipassana: Experience the physical body, experience sensations, experience the mind, and experience dhamma. These are the key natural conditions that will take turn emerging. This is because within one meditation session, it is not only the phenomenon of the physical body that will emerge, but the phenomena of sensations and the mind will take turn emerging.
Therefore, whatever natural conditions emerge, they are all present phenomena. If they emerge clearly, they are present phenomena. The duty of the practitioners is to have the awareness to contemplate how they emerge and cease; how they change. In practicing vipassana, this is our job: Experiencing the emergence, existence, cessation of corporeality, sensations, perceptions (sanna), mental formations (sankhara), consciousness (vinnana). Or, the physical body, sensations, the mind, and dhamma. These phenomena naturally emerge in our daily lives. In this case, we are talking about phenomena that appear while we are sitting.
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