The prompts below are meant to offer you an opportunity to self-reflect and integrate the teachings in this lesson into your lived experience. For guidance, see How to Work with the Contemplations.

• The title of this lesson is “Maintaining the View”—but isn’t maintaining a view another form of attachment?

• What view are you maintaining? What do you think might be the effect of maintaining this view in your daily life?

• Why such an emphasis on mind? Does that mean the body is not important?