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or become clearer and clearer? Or, do they slowly fade away? This is an emergence-cessation phenomenon. This is the transformation of the natural conditions. The feeling of lumps that emerge within an emptiness—that is a type of natural conditions.
What is the natural condition here? Within the framework of Satipattana 4 (The Four Foundations of Mindfulness), it is the phenomenon of corporeality, it is the phenomenon of the physical body. Whether it emerges clearly in darkness; silently in serenity; or, emerges within the clear, bright space in front of us—whatever the phenomena in front of us are—they are all natural conditions. Have the mindfulness to wilfully contemplate them.
Now, you may be uncertain whether the phenomena that emerge are caused by your own fabrication, or even fabrication due to my teaching. It is important for us to carefully analyze, to use our mindfulness to clearly contemplate. Analyze—do not be afraid! If it is caused by fabrication, see whether you could fabricate a new phenomenon to be exactly the same as the previous one. This is the way to analyze the natural conditions that emerge, to resolve our own uncertainty. When we practice dhamma, we must resolve questions, extinguish uncertainties. These uncertainties or skepticism are called “vicikiccha”. The uncertainty in the natural conditions that emerge must be