How to Accord with the Truth and Enter the Truth

The five aggregates, eighteen realms, and twelve entrances arise from the convergence of various causes and conditions, and cease when those causes and conditions disperse. How is this principle to be realized and internalized? The mind consciousness can grasp a rough idea of it simply by thinking about it, yet you yourself also know that this is not genuine understanding; one still needs to deeply and definitively comprehend its meaning, with sound reasoning and evidence. This requires that, within meditative concentration (samādhi), you suspend this principle in your mind, letting the manas deliberate upon it single-pointedly, deliberating continuously and minutely at every moment. The manas's deliberation is hidden, continuous, and unattached to sense objects; it possesses a certain height and depth—this is called "looking with a lofty gaze."