Curiosity

Practice Visual

Overview

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