What is Feeding the
Awareness (Sati)
Link to Awakening!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, just as this body, is sustained by feeding, exists in dependence
on feeding
and cannot survive without food, exactly & even so are the
Seven Links to Awakening
also sustained by feeding, they can also only exist in dependence on feeding
and they
cannot survive without feeding... And what, Bhikkhus, is the feeding of
the emergence
of any yet unarisen Awareness Link to Awakening
and feeding of the completion by
development of any already arisen
Awareness Link to Awakening?
There are states that are the
basis and source for the
Awareness Link to Awakening!!
Frequently giving
careful and rational attention to them, is feeding the
arising of any
unarisen Link to Awareness Link to Awakening
and feeding the gradual fulfillment by
development of any already arisen Awareness Link to
Awakening...
And what, Bhikkhus, is the starving that obstructs the emergence of any
yet unarisen
Awareness Link to
Awakening & which also hinders any already arisen
Awareness Link
from reaching any fulfillment by development? There are,
Bhikkhus, things
that are
basis and source for the
Awareness Link to Awakening:
not giving frequent, careful &
rational attention to them;
not considering them much; is the starving that prevents any
unarisen
Awareness Link
to Awakening from arising and also blocks any already arisen
Awareness Link to Awakening from
reaching complete fulfillments by development...
Comments from the classical commentaries:
Establishing continual
mental presence standing near the object is the characteristic
of the
Awareness Link to Awakening (sati-sambojjhanga). Neither neglecting
any nor
forgetting anything
is the function of Awareness. Remaining anchored on the object,
undistracted & undisrupted, is the manifestation of the
Awareness Link to Awakening.
The food that are basis
and source the arising of
the Awareness Link to Awakening is:
1: Training
of
Clear Comprehension
(sampajanna):
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Clear_Comprehension.htm
2:
Training of the
Four Foundations of Awareness
(satipatthana):
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Manual/Meditation.Manual.htm
3:
Avoidance of careless, mindless and habitually distracted people.
4: Friendship with those endowed with acute
and alert awareness.
5: Determination regarding
establishing unlapsing awareness.
Awareness is the state that increases when
opening the eyes extra-wide! Try Now!
Awareness
is a crucial Universal Basis for all other advantageous states whatsoever...
Awareness is all helpful and useful everywhere
and anytime. Sati
Saturates so Sweet!
What is Right
& Noble Awareness? Answer and Details at:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Awareness.htm
Further
studies in this superb state:
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/Clear_Comprehension.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
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Awareness.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Careful_and_Rational_Attention.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Four_Foundations_of_Awareness.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Clear_and_Aware_Comprehension.htm
Sources (edited extracts):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya.
Book [V:
65-6+102-8] 46: Links. 2+51: Group & Nutriments....
