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please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. Last week we were continuing the discussion of the fourth foundation of

the mindfulness with regard to the six sense fears.

In particular, we examined the instruction in the Satipitana Suta

to know how fetters arise dependent on the six sense

bases that is eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind.

How those fetters arise, how they can be removed,

and how they can be prevented from arising. Remember in this whole discussion, FETR is really another word for suffering.

And so what the Buddha is really talking about is suffering and the end of suffering, how it arises, how it could be removed,

how it could be prevented.

And as we mentioned, as we discussed, this contemplation involves a basic understanding of the law of dependent

origination.

The links that lead from the raw data of the sense impressions,

was that basic data of sensory experience, mind included, we trace the links from the sense

impressions through contact, feeling, desire, grasping, action.

And becoming aware of this chain of conditioning,

it highlights the critical importance of mindfulness in cutting the conditioned

reactivity of the mind. We need to understand the process by which our mind gets caught. And if we can see the

links and become mindful of them at the critical places, that's the way of

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