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experience emergence-existence-cessation, is that right or wrong? The question is: Does this deviate from the Buddha’s teachings? Or, are we experiencing the truth, according to the trilaksana that the Buddha taught: Impermanence (anicca), sufferings (dukkha), non-self (anatta)? This is experiencing the natural conditions that emerge.
If we contemplate without self, without us, without them, without fabrication; can these phenomena emerge? Or, why do they emerge? We need to look back at our state of mind. Do we have the same level of mindfulness, or more? Is our mind more resplendent, or more? Is our mind more well-grounded, or the same? That is why these phenomena can emerge. This is contemplation, so that we can experience natural conditions that emerge. Natural conditions that never appeared before are emerging because of how our mindfulness has changed, how our concentration is different from before, how our attention to natural conditions differ from the past. These are the causes and the results of the natural conditions that emerge in front of us.
Therefore, when contemplating dhamma, if we contemplate in this way, we will know the causes and the results. Causes and circumstances that enable conditions to emerge in front of us. When we contemplate how powerful our mindfulness is; how different from before; is our
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