What is the Mental Ability of Awareness?
The Blessed Buddha
once explained:
Bhikkhus, there are these five mental abilities
(indriya). What five?
The ability of
Faith (saddhā)
The ability of
Energy (viriya)
The ability of
Awareness (sati)
The ability of
Concentration (samādhi)
The ability of
Understanding (pañña)
But
what is the mental ability of Awareness (Sati)?
That which is
awareness, constant attention, recollection, mental presence,
mindfulness,
remembering, bearing in mind,
alertness, watchful consciousness,
non-neglect, non-obliviousness,
non-forgetfulness, non-carelessness, and acute
non-superficiality.
This is called the ability and the power of awareness,
Right
Awareness, and the
Awareness link to Awakening!
But what is this Awareness link to Awakening?
Herein a Bhikkhu is mindful, endowed with excellent
awareness &
recollection, he remembers,
remembers constantly, what has been done, and what has been said concerning release even
very long ago.
This is called
the Awareness link to Awakening...
There is awareness of internal states, and there is awareness of
external states.
Both the
awareness of all internal states and awareness
of all external states is an Awareness link to
Awakening leading to
knowledge, to
Enlightenment, and to complete emancipating release!
The Power of Presence!
On this illuminating
& crucial 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/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
Source:
The Book
of Analysis: Vibhanga 124 + 228
https://store.pariyatti.org/Book-of-Analysis_p_1905.html
