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to contemplate. This is important! We can be unsure, and we should be unsure. In contemplating natural conditions, it is not wrong to be unsure. If we learn to raise questions, that is a good thing and our wisdom will progress. But, we must ask the right question—that is, natural conditions that emerge, how do they emerge and cease? Natural conditions that emerge, can we be attached to them? If we ask the right question, the answer will be easy.
If we ask the question: “Yes or No?”, then the answer will be different. Why? Because, the natural conditions that emerge, sometimes we cannot use rationale or logic. This is because our wisdom has not reached that level—but, the natural conditions have already emerged. When we contemplate the natural conditions that emerge: How is our state of mind? How is our mindfulness? Is our mindfulness strong? Is our mindfulness clear? Is our awareness awless? Here, we can answer for ourselves. As we experience the natural conditions that emerge, do de lements emerge? This, we can answer easily. When we experience natural conditions that emerge, do we experience with a sense of self? This, we can answer easily.
If we could answer these questions, what are the consequences? If we could answer that the natural conditions that emerge have no sense of self, no us, only the mindfulness that does its duty to experience—emergence- existence-cessation—what is wrong with that? If we