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emerges again, then it ceases. We experience emergence- cessation. Therefore, when we move our hand to pick up (something), as we move, does the phenomenon cease before we touch the object? As we touch the object, does the phenomenon cease before we pick it up?
When we have the intention to experience the emergence-cessation phenomenon in this way, our mindfulness resides in the constituents (anga) of the subjects of meditation (kammatthana). We constantly live with the practice of meditation. We never really exit from the act of contemplation—we merely change from major bodily movements to minor bodily movements. And, we have the intention to experience continuously. Our mindfulness continuously experiences natural conditions from meditative sessions. We have been practicing meditation for ve days—who have not exited meditative state at all? No one. Who consistently exit the meditative state? So many hands raised. When we exit meditative states, have we noticed where we go to? No one knows. We just exit.
In fact, the phrase “exit from meditative states” is also called “exit from the present natural conditions”. We do not really exit from meditative states; we merely exit the present natural conditions. We may be brie y absent-minded, but as we become aware, do we resume experiencing the present natural conditions? (A practitioner
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