Page 45 - Extinguishment of self, in search of dhamma

cessation... observe whether sufferings also cease. Or, if sufferings emerge, how long do they exist? Or, do they cease? Or, do their existences become briefer and briefer? The same stories that used to cause sufferings, but now sufferings do not emerge. Perceptions emerge, but sufferings do not follow. This is a result of contemplating the trilaksana. Therefore, we must have the intention to wilfully contemplate.
Therefore, when we practice vipassana kammatthana, we should constantly pay attention to the physical and mental phenomena of our corporeality and our mind. External natural elements (dhata) that impact our physical bodies: Coldness, heat, softness, hardness, tenseness, heaviness, lightness—these are all conditions that naturally impact us. We can use them as subjects of our meditaion (kammatthana). That is, we should have the intention to wilfully contemplate the emergence-existence-cessation (Translator’s note: Of the natural elements). When heat emerges, contemplate the separation between our mind and the heat. Then, wilfully contemplate how the heat changes. After emerging, how does it change? How does it cease? How does it fade away? Or, how much does the heat increase?
As I have said before, if we make our mind unburdened, free from self; the corporeality is also empty; inside the physical bodies also feels empty. Then, the heat
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