So on the one hand, we need to cultivate rapture and all the other factors of awakening; on the other hand, we need to know how to work with them skillfully so we don’t become attached to these pleasant meditative experiences, or we need to learn how to recognize the attachment itself. Here is where we need to bring right understanding and investigative wisdom into play. We understand that all these states are impermanent and selfless, that they don’t belong to anyone. They are all conditioned by various causes and simply arise expressing their own nature. This wise understanding points us in
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