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ceases. That the phenomenon becomes softer and softer, slower and slower, then ceases completely.
When relating natural conditions, we should know what we are talking about, what we are contemplating, how do they (Translator’s note: The natural conditions) emerge and cease. This is a way to organize. We will remember more accurately, our concentration will improve, and the natural conditions will become clearer. Sometimes the practitioners cannot remember anything, relying on me to arrange for them. Sometimes, the phenomena are like this, sometimes they are like that; sometimes they are slow, sometimes they are fast. But, the practitioners cannot tell the difference; asking me to think for myself! So, I need to arrange for them. Sometimes, practitioners relate that natural conditions during each meditative session are always different. But, if we know they are different, we should contemplate how they change.
Do you notice that every time you relate your natural condition, I always tell you to contemplate further, to see how the natural conditions change; how they change from previously? “Different from previously”—this is the key that practitioners must pay attention to. Do not just say that they are different from previously, that they keep on changing. We do know that they change, so we need to know how they change—because this is impermanence (anicca). This is the natural conditions that are changing.