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Pain/unpleasant feelings will come up on the way to the heart; Questions & answers: need to be out of the system to investigate the system; Pain investigation: it will break through our worldly knowledge/education ("it's in the tendons", "it's because the blood doesn't flow" etc.); Monks smoking cigarettes: it's allowed because nicotine is stimulating like cafeine and also it calms down the hunger, real cause of death is birth; Explanation of the 3 kinds of samadhi: all those samadhi bring energy once we come out; Samadhi and investigation: in the forest tradition, it's important to separate those 2 practices; Watching the content of the mind: watching phenomena arising and ceasing, "you can do this for the rest of your life, and nothing will change"; In the forest tradition, body contemplation leads up to the stage of Anagami, then you can investigate the mind.