| | Author: bboyYen
This is one of those weird problems. It seems in the suttas their are no actual instructions on how to apply satipatthana or sati foundations, except for the anapanasati sutta and others like that.
It seems at least for me, that noting becomes a burden, kind of, it's ironic though that there are no actual instructions on what to do, mostly because that it's so delicate. Providing actual instructons may lead you down the wrong way.
Like jhanas for example, right now there is no sutta I can recall that tells you how to attain them, none of them say "you fix your mind on one object" at least I think.
It seems most deal with reality, and we read about something regarding, pacing up and down and clearing bad thoughts or something like that.
Talking about satipatthana, it seems when "Herein, monks, a monk knows the consciousness with lust," or "Herein, monks, when sense-desire is present, a monk knows, "There is sense-desire in me,"
So that would kind of in a way be the equivalent of noting.
Here (in this teaching), bhikkhus, when a mind with greed (raga) note55 arises, a bhikkhu knows, "This is a mind with greed";
Things like "This is a mind with greed" or "There is sense-desire in me," could possibly be noting.
but then again it's all delicate it seems, with the modern vipassana movement people are actually understanding how to meditate and Buddha's teaching are treated more and more ilke everyday talk or... self help.
In a way opposed to religion, kind of like how it was back in the day. It's ironic that in the Visuddhimagga there are no actual instructions on how to practice vipassana, or possibly mindfulness, it seems that vipassana is more of an understanding of certain parts of abhidhamma or philosophy or whatever.
It's just weird because there seem to be no prac |