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Friends:
Awareness
(Sati) is a Link to
Enlightenment!
The Awareness Link to Awakening (sati-sambojjhanga)
is basically the
same mental property (sati-cetasika),
which inherently is included in:
The
Four Foundations of
Awareness (satipatthāna)
The Ability of Awareness (satindriya)
The Power of Awareness (satibala)
The
Right Awareness
Path Factor (sammā-sati-magganga)
Trained, developed and refined in a degree that gradually enlightens!
The Buddha once said:
What
mental fermentations
(āsava) should be
overcome by development? If a Bhikkhu by
careful & rational
attention
develops the Awareness Link to Awakening based on seclusion, disillusion,
ceasing, and culminating in relinquishment, neither can any fermentation,
nor any fever, nor any vexation ever arise in him.
MN 2 [i 11]
The Ability of Awareness
is to anchor attention on any chosen object and
when this ability is unshakable & well fixed, it is the Power of
Awareness!
Awareness is a Foundation (patthana),
when well established (upatthana)
continually - without distractions interrupting - on these
four objects:
1:
Body as mere form: Just a group of foul and fragile organs...
2: Feeling as a mere reactive response assigned to any contact...
3: Mind as only a changing set of habitual mentalities and moods...
4: Phenomena simply as appearances of momentary mental states...
Not
lasting, but transient! Not pleasure, but pain! Not self, but impersonal!
Neither neglecting, nor forgetting that these universal characteristics
are
relevant and true for absolutely all aspects of these four objects, the
false
and distorted perception of beauty in what really is disgusting, of
pleasure
in what really is painful, of self in what really is selfless and
impersonal,
gradually fades away and the
mental fermentations
(āsava) of sensing,
of views, of ignorance and of becoming are overcome by elimination.
 
Further inspirations on
this lucid and penetrating quality of Awareness:
Training of
Clear Comprehension
(sampajanna):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Clear_Comprehension.htm
Training of the
Four Foundations of
Awareness (satipatthāna):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Manual/Meditation.Manual.hm
What is Right and Noble
Awareness? Answer and Details at:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Awareness.htm
Further studies in this
universally superb mental state:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Sati_Studies.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Causes_of_sati.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Sati_Summary.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sati_in_Solitude.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Clear_Comprehension.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Noble_Awareness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/One_and_only_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Awareness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Analysis.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sati_a_la_Anuruddha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Awareness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Careful_and_Rational_Attention.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Four_Foundations_of_Awareness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Clear_and_Aware_Comprehension.htm
Awareness (Sati)
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