What is this Fundamental Right
Awareness?
That Noble Eightfold Way,
leading to Nibbāna, is simply this:
Right View,
Right
Motivation,
Right Speech,
Right Action,
Right Livelihood,
Right Effort, Right Awareness
and Right Concentration.
But what is Right
Awareness?
The
4-fold Definition of Right Awareness:
1:
Awareness of the
Body merely as a transient and compounded Form..
2:
Awareness of
Feelings just as
conditioned emotional Responses..
3:
Awareness of
Mind
only as habituated,
and temporary Moods..
4:
Awareness of
Phenomena
only as constructed Mental States..
Right
Awareness is of these 4, while being alert, and clearly comprehending,
will put away longing towards, and aversion against anything in this
world!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Friends, this is the only direct way to the mental purification of beings,
to the overcoming and elimination of all sorrow, frustration, pain
and
misery,
to gaining the right method, to the realization of Nibbāna, that
is:
This establishing of exactly these 4 Foundations of Awareness:
These 4 frames of reference...
Core Concept: The 4
Foundations of Right Awareness are:
1: Being aware of the BODY as
only
a transient form.
2: Being aware of the FEELING just as
a reactive response..
3: Being aware of the MIND merely
as a passing set of moods...
4: Being aware of
any PHENOMENON solely as a mental state....
Awareness is
indeed a Mountain of Advantage!
The Explanation of Acute Awareness and Clear Comprehension:
When inhaling
and exhaling long, one notices and is fully aware of just
that..
When inhaling and exhaling short, one notices and is fully aware of just
that..
One trains: I will breathe in-&-out clearly comprehending the entire
body.
One trains: I will breathe
in-&-out
calming the breath, and all bodily activity.
When walking, one notices, and clearly comprehends, that one is
walking.
When standing, one notices, and clearly comprehends, that one is
standing.
When sitting, one notices, and clearly comprehends, that one is
sitting down.
When lying down, one notices, and clearly comprehends, that one
is lying.
Going forward one notices, and clearly comprehends, this
going forward.
When returning one notices, and clearly comprehends, this
returning.
When looking in front or back, one notices, and is clearly
aware of that.
When bending or stretching, when lifting or carrying, when
eating or
drinking, chewing or tasting, one is aware of, and mentally labels
just that.
When passing excrement or urine one clearly comprehends
exactly that.
While falling asleep, and when waking up, when speaking or keeping silence,
one
notices, knows and understands exactly that, and clearly comprehends,
that this is, what one
is doing just right here, and exactly right now...
Continuous awareness of purpose, suitability, domain, and nature of one's
current behaviour, whether mental, verbal, or bodily is Right
Awareness,
and clear
comprehension...
The Characterization of Right Awareness:
Awareness of wrong view or right view present now, is
right awareness!
Awareness of wrong motivation or
right motivation, is right awareness!
Awareness of
wrong speech or right speech now, is right awareness!
Awareness
of wrong action
or right action done now, is right awareness!
Awareness of wrong livelihood
or right livelihood, is right awareness!
Awareness of
wrong effort or right effort at this moment, is right
awareness!
Awareness of wrong awareness or right
awareness, is right awareness!
Awareness of wrong or
right concentration just now, is right awareness!
The Function of Right Awareness and its associates:
Knowing right/wrong awareness as right/wrong awareness, is right
view.
Exchanging wrong awareness with right
awareness is right effort.
Right awareness has the function of observing,
noticing, remembering and
knowing the true reality that neither any body, nor any form, nor any feeling,
nor any
mentality, nor any phenomena, nor any mental state is real happiness,
truly attractive, lasting,
satisfying,
something to be kept,
or even personal ...
All phenomena are momentary: They pass away right after the moment of
their arising and occurrence! Nothing is permanent, everything is in a state
of flux: Arising
and
ceasing, emerging and vanishing, coming and going,
again and again and again
and again and ever
again...! Anicca = Change...
Continuously seeing this transience,
dissatisfactoriness, and impersonality
is right
awareness...
Further study of
Buddhist Right Awareness
(Sammā-Sati):
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/samma-sati.html
For
further study on the illuminating presence of Awareness:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Sati_Studies.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Causes_of_sati.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Sati_Summary.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sati_in_Solitude.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Sati.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Noble_Awareness.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/One_and_only_Way.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Awareness.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Analysis.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sati_a_la_Anuruddha.htm
Complete reference on Satipatthana:
The Direct Path to Realization:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/pdfs/Satipatthana.pdf
Root texts by the Buddha:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/sn/index.html#satipatthana
