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# Auto

## Practice Visual

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## Overview

<table><thead><tr><th width="177"></th><th align="center"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>What</strong></td><td align="center">Recognising that everything is happening by it self, outside one's control</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Benefits</strong></td><td align="center"><ul><li><p>Facilitates Foundational Skills</p><ul><li>Softening</li><li>Curiosity</li><li>Virtue &#x26; Vice</li><li>Dis- &#x26; Enchantment</li></ul><p></p></li><li>Facilitates Attitude of Offering > Forcing</li><li><p>Facilitates Wisdom</p><ul><li>Understand yourself as a sensory system i.e., an aggregate of habits that can be improved upon</li></ul></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Instructions</strong></td><td align="center"></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Daily Life</strong></td><td align="center"><p>Curiosity</p><ul><li>'Did xyz happen by itself or did I do it?'</li></ul><p>Disenchant </p><ul><li>As it is outside my control, it is not worth fighting with it</li></ul><p>Enchant</p><ul><li>As it is outside my control, I can let go</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Consider</strong></td><td align="center"><p>Proactive > Complacency</p><ul><li>The ability to positively influence one-self and the world increases </li><li>Thanks to the increased understanding of causality and the freedom gained from habits caused by the perspective of control</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Progress</strong></td><td align="center"><ul><li><p>Perceiving any moment as happening by itself rather than being under one's control</p><ul><li>Usually progressing from gross to subtle, from body to mind</li></ul></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Acknowledgement</strong></td><td align="center"><p>Buddhism</p><p><a href="https://midlmeditation.com/">MIDL</a></p><p><a href="/pages/srqjd23vfpFSeBwSrJwF">Curiosity</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table>