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In reality, when I tell you to experience that way, when you go and sit down to meditate, there are no sensations, that meditative session has gone, only thoughts are present, so you contemplate thoughts. This is the way to relate, it is not a problem. This is the present phenomenon that we should contemplate anyway. When you contemplate the emergence-cessation phenomenon (Translator’s note: Of thoughts), you should do it the same way as I have told you to contemplate sensations. The thoughts cease this way, this way, this way... relate it, relate the experience. This is the way to relate natural conditions. This is the way to cease without any remnants of the phenomenon. There is no bemoaning, there is no lamenting.
Sometimes, practitioners spend so much time bemoaning that I used to say “do not bemoan!” When practitioners start to relate natural conditions—they are like this, they are like that—do not bemoan. When relating natural conditions, do not bemoan. Relate only the phenomena that we experience. What kind of action is called bemoaning? You do know, correct? It is like this, it is like that... this becomes complaining, bemoaning. In reality, if you experience, you experience; if you do not experience, you do not experience. Just relate that, that is all.
In the past, I went to relate natural conditions with Than Mae Kru (Translator’s note: The Mother Teacher). I
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