The Blessed Buddha once
said: I will teach you the origination and passing
away of the
reference objects of the
Four
Foundations of Awareness.
Listen to that:
Appearance of
Nutriment
produces the emergence
of the Body.
Disappearance of
Nutriment
produces the passing away of the Body.
Appearance of
Contact
produces the emergence of
Feeling.
Disappearance of
Contact
produces the passing away of Feeling.
Appearance of
Name-&-Form
produces the emergence of Mind.
Disappearance of
Name-&-Form
produces the passing away of Mind.
Appearance of
Attention
produces the emergence
of Phenomena.
Disappearance of
Attention
produces the passing away of Phenomena.
Therefore: Considering,
contemplating, analyzing, and always recollecting:
Body merely as transient forms grown on
and out of Food;
Feeling only as passing reactive emotions arisen from Contact;
Mind just as changing moods emerged from Naming-and-Forming;
Phenomena only as momentary mental states induced by Attention...
repeatedly, thoroughly, and completely,
is called initiating and developing the
Four Foundations
of Awareness, which - in & by itself - is the mental treasure
par excellence, leading steadily and straight to the
Deathless Element...
Deep,
profound, subtle and
somewhat enigmatic is this profound classification!
Details On
4 Foundations
of Awareness (Sati):
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Awareness.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Sati.htm
Everything has a Cause: Conditioned
Origination and Cessation:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/ontology.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Profound_Causality.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Caused_by_What.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Cohesive_Co-Origination.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Collapsible_Co-Cessation.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Dependent_Origination.htm
Source of reference (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha.
Samyutta Nikāya.
Book [V:
184-5] 47 The Foundations of Awareness: 42 Origination..
