Friends:
What is this
Fundamental Right Awareness ?
The Noble
Eightfold Way, leading to Nibbāna, is simply this:
Right View, Right Motivation, Right Speech, Right Action,
Right
Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Awareness, & Right
Concentration.
But what is Right Awareness ?
The
4-fold Definition of Right Awareness:
1: The Awareness of the Body merely as a transient & compounded
Form..
2: The Awareness of Feelings just as assigned & passing
emotional Responses..
3: The Awareness of Mind only as a group of habituated &
temporary Moods..
4: The Awareness of Phenomena simply as momentary & constructed
Mental States..
Right awareness is of these 4, while being alert, clearly
comprehending & mindful,
thereby putting away longing towards & aversion against anything
in this world...!!!
The Characterization of Right Awareness:
Awareness of presence of wrong view & right view, is Right
Awareness!
Awareness of presence of wrong motivation & right motivation, is
Right Awareness!
Awareness of presence of wrong speech & right speech, is Right
Awareness!
Awareness of presence of wrong action & right action, is Right
Awareness!
Awareness of presence of wrong livelihood & right livelihood, is
Right Awareness!
Awareness of presence of wrong effort & right effort, is Right
Awareness!
Awareness of presence of wrong awareness & right awareness, is
Right Awareness!
Awareness of presence of wrong concentration & right
concentration, is Right Awareness!
The Explanation of Acute Awareness & Clear
Comprehension:
When inhaling & exhaling long, one notices this & is fully aware
of just that..
When inhaling & exhaling short, one notices this & is fully
aware of just that..
One trains thus: 'I will breathe in & out clearly comprehending
the entire body.'
One trains thus: 'I will breathe in & out calming the breath &
any bodily activity.'
When walking, one notices, is aware of & clearly comprehends,
that one is walking.
When standing, one notices, is aware of & clearly comprehends,
that one is standing.
When sitting, one notices, is aware of & clearly comprehends,
that one is sitting down.
When lying down, one notices, is aware of & clearly comprehends,
that one is lying down.
Going forward one notices, is aware of & clearly comprehends,
that one is going forward.
When returning one notices, is aware of & clearly comprehends,
that one is returning.
When looking in front or back, one is notices, & is clearly
aware of, what one is doing.
When bending and stretching one notices, & clearly comprehends,
what one is doing.
When lifting or carrying a thing one knows, & is fully aware of,
that this is one doing.
When eating, drinking, chewing and savouring, one is aware of &
comprehends just that.
When passing excrement or urine one notes, is aware of & clearly
comprehends exactly that.
When falling asleep and waking up, when speaking or keeping
silence, one notices, is aware of,
knows & understands exactly that & clearly comprehends, that
this is, what one is doing now...
Continuous awareness of purpose, suitability, domain and nature
of one's current behaviour!
Whether mental, verbal or bodily: Such is right awareness &
clear comprehension...
The Function of Right Awareness & it's
associates:
Thus knowing right & wrong awareness as right & wrong awareness,
is right view.
Exchanging wrong awareness with right awareness is right effort.
Right awareness has the function of observing, noticing,
remembering & knowing
the reality that neither any body, nor any form, nor any
feeling, nor any mentality,
nor any phenomena, nor any mental state is truly attractive,
lasting, satisfying or
even personal... All phenomena are momentary: They pass away at
the moment of their
occurrence! Nothing is permanent, everything is in a state of
flux: Arising & ceasing,
emerging & vanishing, coming and going, again & again & again &
again & ever again...!!!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Friends, this is the only direct way to the mental purification
of beings,
to the overcoming of sorrow & frustration, to the elimination of
pain & misery,
to the acquisition of the right method, to the realization of
Nibbāna, that is:
this establishing of the Four Foundations of Awareness...!!!
Awareness is a Mountain of Advantage...!!!