Discovering Natural Phenomena Basic 2
Seeing Patterns (causes & effects)
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Being aware of your breath results in your breath becoming long/deep on its own.
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Providing the air by the world (or the existence of the world) results in your breath.
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Eating a meal results in experiencing full sensation in your stomach.
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Skipping a meal results in experiencing hungry sensation.
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Sitting long on floor results in experiencing discomfort/pain in legs.
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Standing long results in experiencing tiredness.
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Unbalanced body posture results in experiencing body tension.
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Pressing a switch results in a light is turned on.
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Adding honey into a cup of tea results in sweet taste in tea.
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Placing a pen in your pocket results in the pen in your pocket.
Discovering Causes from Effects
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Recognize the cause of full sensations in your stomach.
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Recognize the cause of hungry sensation.
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Recognize the cause of body tension.
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Recognize the cause of the light on.
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Recognize the cause of sweet taste in the cup of tea.
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Recognize the cause of a pen in your pocket.
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Recognize causes of your breath.
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Recognize causes of a long breath.
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Recognize causes of your body.
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Recognize causes of a desire.
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Recognize causes of restless mind.
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Recognize causes of calm mind.
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Recognize causes of liking.
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Recognize causes of disliking.
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Recognize causes of pleasantness.
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Recognize causes of unpleasantness.
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Recognize causes of unhappiness, anxiety or anger.
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Recognize causes for your mental chatter.
Seeing from Another Angle
Breath:
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Be aware that the world is giving you what you need and is taking away what you do not need.
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Be aware of breathing is happening on its own.
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Be aware of new elements coming in while breathing in. Be aware of old elements going out while breathing out.
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Be aware of meeting while breathing in. Be aware of separating while breathing out.
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Be aware of being united with the world while breathing in and breathing out.
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Be aware of energy while breathing in and breathing out.
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Breathing in for the world. Breathing out for the world.
Body:
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Be aware of touching countless many elements in your body. (e.g. hydrogen, oxygen, carbon)
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Be aware that the elements will be scattered and become various part of the world in the future. (E.g. a deep ocean, a tall snowy mountain, soil or a flower.)
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Be aware that the elements similarly were various part of the world in the past.
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Be aware of touching the elements in your body and be aware of touching the world.
Others:
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See displeasure in pleasure
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See pleasure in displeasure.
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Be aware of a thought is like a photo of sunflower.
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See body as a formation of elements.
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See a thought occurring on its own rather than you are thinking.
Seeing Patterns 2 (causes & effects)
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Experiencing unpleasantness results in a rise of a desire not to experience the unpleasantness.
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Experiencing pleasantness results in a rise of a desire to continue experiencing the pleasantness. (UP reactions)
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Having likes (craving or desire) results in your mind being biased.
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Having dislikes (anger or aversion) results in your mind being biased.
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Having contradiction in knowing results in your mind being unreliable.
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Having preoccupied with I my me mine (seeking self-interest) results in restlessness or tensed body.
Discovering Causes from Effects 2
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Recognize the cause of a desire.
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Recognize the cause of a biased mind.
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Recognize the cause of an unreliable mind.
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Recognize the cause of your body tension.
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Recognize the cause of restlessness.
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Recognize causes of a mental trap.
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Recognize the causes that will demolish the mental trap.
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Recognize the causes that will prevent the mental trap being created again.
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Recognize the cause of a pen.
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Recognize the cause of your life problem.
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Recognize the cause of meeting a person.
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Recognize the cause of you being here.
Seeing from Another Angle 2
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Be aware of receiving and giving as breathing in and out.
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Recognize touching your body is touching the world.
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Recognize your body as a result of death of other living things.
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Be aware of new body parts coming in while breathing in. Be aware of old body parts going out while breathing out.
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Be aware of the world from your breath.
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Be aware of the five parts of self (material form, consciousness, feeling, perception and mental formation) in you.
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See the world in a cup.
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See you in a cup.
Others
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Notice how your body and mind react to the TV images and sound in each moment.
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Just be (aware of whatever you are currently experiencing).
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Know relation between two phenomena.
Seeing the True Nature of Your Breath
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Be aware of your breath (the phenomena).
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Be aware of causes of the phenomena.
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See it from another angle.
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(Be aware of the relation between your breath and another phenomenon.)
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See the true nature of your breath.
Seeing the True Nature of a Cup
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Be aware of a cup (the phenomena).
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Be aware of causes of the phenomena.
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See it from another angle.
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See the true nature of the cup.
Seeing the True Nature: Reality (and Life)
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Know your life problem. (e.g. anger, stress, anxiety, sleep problem, unhappiness, health)
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Know the cause of your life problem.
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Know why you are here (in this room, country, planet).