Friends:
What
is this 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 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 & 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 & awareness
of
all external states is an Awareness link to
Awakening leading to
knowledge,
Enlightenment, and to complete emancipating release!
The Power of Presence!
On this illuminating
& crucial presence of Awareness:
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/III/Awareness_Sati.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
Source: The Book
of Analysis: Vibhanga 124 + 228
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=130304
The Power of Presence!
