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# Curiosity

## Practice Visual

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## Overview

<table><thead><tr><th width="146"></th><th align="center"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>What</strong></td><td align="center">Understanding, Directly Experiencing and Applying Causality of the whole and it's parts</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Benefits</strong></td><td align="center"><p></p><ul><li><p>Facilitates Improvement</p><ul><li>Understanding the specific conditions that cause another specific condition &#x26; ability to strengthen or weaken specific conditions</li><li>e.g., Causes for Suffering or Happiness</li></ul></li><li><p>Facilitates Sensory Wisdom</p><ul><li>e.g., Causality, Auto</li></ul></li><li>Facilitates Remembering the Presence > Forgetting</li><li>Energizes the Mind > Dullness </li></ul></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Instructions</strong></td><td align="center"><ul><li><p><strong>Distinguish your sensory experience into the six senses</strong></p><ul><li>Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, Tasting, Touching, Minding</li></ul></li><li><p><strong>Softening</strong></p><ul><li>Does excessive effort cause tension, agitation, discomfort, misery? Or does it cause relief, relaxation, calm, pleasure, joy?</li><li>Does tuning into the out-breath facilitate or hinder the releasing of effort in body or mind?</li><li>Does releasing effort cause relief, relaxation, calm, pleasure, joy? Or does it cause tension, agitation, discomfort, misery?</li></ul></li><li><p><strong>Vice</strong></p><ul><li>Is the experience of vice strengthened or weakened by softening?</li></ul></li><li><p><strong>Virtue</strong></p><ul><li>Is the experience of virtue strengthen or weaken by softening?</li></ul></li><li><p><strong>Disenchantment &#x26; Enchantment</strong></p><ul><li>Do you experience a preference or disfavour towards softness and virtue or non-softness and vice?</li></ul></li><li><p><strong>Auto</strong></p><ul><li>Does remembering the present moment, after having forgotten it, happen autonomously or is it something you intentionally do?</li><li>Does your breathing occur autonomously or something you intentionally do?</li><li>What experience does or does not occur autonomously?</li></ul></li><li><p><strong>Best Opportunity</strong></p><ul><li>Are there or are there no opportunities to improve upon?</li></ul></li><li><p><strong>Constructive &#x26; Excessive Effort</strong></p><ul><li>What effort is constructive in developing the foundational skills?</li><li>What effort is excessive in developing the foundational skills?</li></ul></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Daily Life</strong></td><td align="center"><ul><li>What is my current experience?</li><li><p>What caused the present situation?</p><ul><li>What is the cause of the current discontentment or contentment?</li></ul></li><li>What conditions can I increase or decrease to support improvement?</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Consider</strong></td><td align="center"><ul><li><p><strong>Playful > Serious</strong></p><ul><li>Flavors of lighthearted or wondering rather than rigid or assured, facilitate learning by opening up your mind and enjoyment</li></ul></li><li><p><strong>Simmering > Impatience</strong></p><ul><li>With curiosity established, allow the clarity to arise spontaneously. </li><li>Letting go of impatience or forcing to see clearly.</li></ul></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Progress</strong></td><td align="center"><ul><li>Curiosity increasingly integrates into your default way of being > Indifferent</li><li>Curiosity is enjoyable, humble > exhausting, preachy</li><li>Perceiving causality increasingly within your sensory experiences and the world around you</li><li>Attitude of applying conditions to facilitate causing improvement >  believing one is in control and forced conditions to be a certain way<br></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Acknowledgement</strong></td><td align="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahasi_Sayadaw">Mahasi Sayadaw</a></td></tr></tbody></table>