Establishing Awareness Creates a Mighty
Majestic Power!
Sāketa was the place where Venerable
Sariputta said this to Venerable
Anuruddha:
Friend Anuruddha, by cultivating and making much of which conditions have
you developed such mighty
magic power, and supreme majesty?
Friend, it is by cultivating and making much of the
Four Foundations of Awareness that I have done so.
What four? Herein friend,
I dwell contemplating
body just as a form
... and the rise and fall of body ...
both own and other ... internal and external ...
past, present and future!
I dwell contemplating
feeling just as
reaction ... and the rise and fall of feeling ...
both own and other ... internal and external ...
past, present and future!
I dwell contemplating all
mind just as
moods ... and the rise and fall of mind ...
both own and other ... internal and external ...
past, present and future!
I dwell contemplating all
phenomena just as
mental states ...
and rise and fall of mental states ... both own and other ... internal
and external ...
whether
past, present and future!
Moreover, friend it is by cultivating and making much of these
Four Foundations of Awareness
that I have come to completely and directly
experience this thousand fold galactic world-system.
Moreover, it is
because of having cultivated, and made much of these
Four Foundations of Awareness
that the painful feelings that come upon my body
make no contact with my
mind.
Moreover, it is because of having cultivated, and made much of these
Four Foundations of Awareness
that I enjoy many forms of magic powers: From being one, I become many,
visible or invisible ...
and even as far as the fine material dark matter Brahma world do I exert power
with my body.
Moreover, it is because of having cultivated, and made much of these
Four Foundations of Awareness,
that I hear with divine hearing purified and supra-human the sound of both
man and deva, far or near.
Moreover, it is because of having cultivated,
and made much of these
Four Foundations of Awareness,
that I know the minds of other beings; the lustful as lustful,
angry as angry ... the
liberated as liberated.
Moreover, it is because of having cultivated, and
made much of these
Four Foundations of Awareness,
that I know, as it really is, the cause of any given event, and what is not
the cause of this event.
Moreover, it is because of having cultivated,
and made much of these
Four Foundations of Awareness,
that I know as they really are the cause and conditions of any given action,
whether performed in
the past, future or present time.
Moreover, it
is because of having cultivated, and made much of these
Four Foundations of Awareness,
that I know, as it really is, the gradual and final result of any given
practise.
Moreover, it is because of having cultivated, and made much of these
Four Foundations of Awareness,
that I know, as they really are, the diverse characters of whatever being
on whatever existence-level.
Moreover, it is because
of having cultivated, and made much of these
Four Foundations of Awareness,
that I know, as they really are, the
deeper and latent natures of other being's, and person's
minds.
Moreover, it is because of having cultivated, and made much of these
Four Foundations of Awareness,
that I know, as they really are, the corruption, purification,
and emergence
of the attainments of any
trance, mental release, and kind of absorption.
Moreover, it is because of having cultivated, and made much of these
Four Foundations of Awareness,
that I can remember my past lives, as they really were: One, two ...
100 thousands rebirths in all their
minutest detail and peculiarity.
Moreover, it is because of having cultivated, and made much of these
Four Foundations of Awareness,
that I know and see with divine supra-human sight, as they really are, the
going and coming of beings,
their death and rebirth, all while transmigrating according to their
accumulated behaviour.
Moreover, it is because of
having cultivated, and made much of these
Four Foundations of Awareness,
that I know, as it really is, in this very life, by my own unaided ability,
the destruction of the mental
fermentations, and the calm blissful dwelling in release
and insight freed from
all mental fermentation...
Venerable
Sariputta
and Venerable
Anuruddha
Source:
Samyutta Nikāya V Maha-Vagga, Section on
Anuruddha.
Anuruddha was first cousin of the Buddha,
and an eminent Awareness-Master disciple:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/ay/anuruddha.htm
More on these
crucial
Four Foundations of Awareness:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Four_Foundations_of_Awareness.htm
