continuing our journey from human to met a human.

And today's principle, the physical body and the appearance of the physical world

are created in the mind as constructs

from sensations that are intermittent and ephemeral.

I'll repeat the physical body and the appearance of the physical world are created in the mind as constructs from sensations that are intermittent and ephemeral.

When I say sensations, I mean the sensation of touch,

but also if you close your eyes,

you feel sensations in your body, these little islands of sensation in your body.

But by sensations I also mean sense perceptions. So color is a sensation in our consciousness. A form is a

sensation in our consciousness. A taste, a smell, even a thought.

How do we know these things exist?

Because we sense them.

And where do we sense them in our consciousness?

But every sensation... in our consciousness.

But every sensation is an on and an off

and it occurs very fast that's why I call it evanescent, intermittent, ephemeral, ungraspable, uncatchable. Okay now close your eyes and imagine that you're looking at a flame, a candle.

And you'll see that it flickers in and out, not only the flame flickers in and out, even the candle flickers in and out.

Or imagine a rainbow, or imagine lightning, or imagine a sunset, same thing.

You can't hold on to that image.

But the same is true of any other sense perception.

Okay, try to imagine the taste of chocolate ice cream.

You can't hold on to it.

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