..续本文上一页leasant sensation - and it reacts. It will drive the mosquito away or kill the mosquito. Still, this unpleasant sensation is going on. Now it will scratch and the conscious mind doesn”t know at all. In the morning if somebody asks you, "During the night, how many mosquitoes bit you
" You don”t know. You will know nothing about it, and yet the whole night you were reacting to these mosquito bites.
And it does not happen only at night. This barrier remains all the time, twenty-four hours a day. For example now, at this moment, I am sitting.
If I am not a good Vipassana meditator, what happens
While I am talking, my conscious mind is working: "Look, I have said so much. Now I must conclude in this way. Time is getting short. I must finish the talk now. And whatever I am saying - are people listening to it
Are they understanding or are they getting bored
They have started yawning.
They are looking at their watches. I must stop talking." My conscious mind is doing this job. The unconscious mind has nothing at all to do with it. The unconscious mind is busy feeling sensations. Sitting for one hour in one position with this heavy weight, a pressure starts somewhere in my body. When a pressure starts this unconscious mind says, "I don”t like it. You better move." So I move a little. After some time another pressure appears. Again I move a little. Some itching might start up and automatically I scratch it. My conscious mind doesn”t know what I am doing. Try observing someone. Keep watching him or her for 15 minutes. Do nothing: just observe the person. You will notice how frequently he or she is shifting like this and fidgeting here and there. What is he doing
Even the person himself or herself does not know what he or she is doing. This is because there is such a big barrier between the conscious and the unconscious part of the mind.
The conscious mind is occupied with so many things. The unconscious mind is busy only feeling sensations and reacting, feeling sensations and reacting.
This barrier needs to be broken. You may have the intellectual understanding: "Oh everything is anicca, everything is anicca, there should be no lobha, no dosa." And yet there is lobha, there is dosa. This mind, this unconscious mind does not understand that this is anicca. When there is pain, it doesn”t like it: "Oh, this is unpleasant. I don”t like it." It keeps on reacting. Now, with Vipassana, you go to the depth where the mind feels the body sensations. It is at the level of the bodily sensations that the unconscious mind is reacting; and it is at this level that you can stop this unconscious mind from reacting. Whatever may have been understood at the intellectual level, now this mad mind, the blind mind, also starts understanding: "Look-anicca, Look, these sensations are anicca." Then the behavior pattern at the depth of the mind starts changing.
This was Buddha”s enlightenment: this paticcasamuppada (dependent origination). He said whether there is a Buddha present or not, the law of paticcasamuppada is always there. Other teachers will say, "Oh, you must not react with craving to anything pleasant that you see, or to anything pleasant that you hear, or to any pleasant thing you smell, taste, touch or think. You must not react with craving. Or, whatever unpleasant experience there may be, something that you see, you hear, you smell, you taste, you touch, or you think - do not have aversion."
This teaching was there. Even today many are giving this teaching.
Buddha found out that there is a gap between the outside object coming in contact with the six sense doors and the reaction of craving or aversion. He discovered a missing link, and that missing link is vedana, the sensation on the body.
Salyatana paccaya phasso;
phassa paccaya vedana…
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