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lightness—we need to experience their changes. By experiencing the changes, (Translator’s note: Our mind) will develop. By experiencing the changes of our state of mind—becoming more peaceful, clearer—we will progress. By experiencing that mental sufferings cease, our mind becomes more peaceful, more airy, lighter, cleaner. When unwholesomeness emerges, have the mindfulness to contemplate. When we experience cessation (Translator’s note: Of unwholesomeness), the mind become more peaceful, lighter. Becoming more peaceful, lighter—this is called changes in the state of mind.
Therefore, the more we experience the impermanence, the changes of the mind; the more we experience the mind becoming more peaceful, cleaner, clearer, our mind will become freer, more and more comfortable. This is the contemplation of the trilaksana—therefore our mind is relaxed, it does not attach, there are no attachments (upadana). Therefore, we should have the intention to wilfully contemplate the natural conditions that emerge in front of us, to clearly experience what phenomenon is emerging. If sensations emerge, contemplate in the same way that we used to contemplate before.
How do we contemplate? When sensations emerge, contemplate the clear separation between the mind that experiences and the sensations. Then, contemplate how sensations change, how they emerge-cease. This is called