Understanding Suffering and the Subtle Human Body : หน้า 123/263

wealth. As the majority of sorts of suffering concerns material things, having attained the subtle human body, the mind, being unified with the subtle human body, is safely withdrawn beyond the reach of that suffering. The reason why most people get upset about things is because they have not yet managed to attain the subtle human body – and consequently are still attached to their body and their possessions. Even though they might try to rationalize intellectually according to the teaching of the Buddha and try to convince themselves that "All things are of a nature of impermanence, suffering and not-self – they arise, exist for a time and then decay," however, it is no more than a conceptualization. Such a thought might seem to console one for a while, but it doesn't make the suffering go away. Such thinking might even increase one's suffering because it will only increase one's disappointment that one can't manage to make the suffering go away. It cannot remove the source of the suffering at its roots by the method of transcending [samuccheda-virati]. This is the reason why the Lord Buddha taught us to practice by meditating to the point where we can see and consider the bodies within the body. Once one has attained the subtle human body, having significantly reduced one's suffering by loosening the fetters of 'clinging' [upādāna], there will be a feeling of refreshedness, joy and happiness which arises from within the mind — giving the meditator the inspiration they need for the mind to enter yet deeper on the central axis – and the deeper the meditator can go, the stronger will be the feeling of such inner happiness. The nature of all the inner bodies is to have their centres all aligned with the centre of the physical body (seventh base of the mind). Thus, simply by settling the mind further at