Many of us spend the better part of our lifetime shutting down our awareness of our own body. Yet Buddhism teaches that in order to achieve direct, moment-to-moment awareness of our experience, we need to turn our body into our object of meditation by asking, for example, “What does that emotion, thought or sensation feel like in the body?
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The realization of impermanence can be an invaluable teaching, inspiring us to look more deeply into who and what we are. While a fear of personal annihilation can set in as we begin to let go of the familiar habit-patterns that create our illusory sense of self, what we are in fact being asked to relinquish is suffering.
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A clear understanding of papanca (mental proliferation) is essential to help us overcome it and gain liberation from suffering. The Buddha put it this way: “The fool who delights in papanca is far from Nibbana. The one who delights in non-papanca attains nibbana”.
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