It is often obvious, either through a person’s bodily expressions or words, when they are feeling something as either pleasant or painful. Then, by inference, from our own experience of pleasure and pain, we can know, at least to some extent, what the other person is feeling. The same is true of various mind states. When we’re mindful of mind externally, and we see someone angry or loving, greedy or generous, distracted or concentrated, then by inference, based on our own experience of these states, we can open to and become aware of the other person’s mental state—just as it is, free from our
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