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Rethinking Satipatthana: from investigating Dhamma to dwelling in jhana

Rethinking Satipatthana: from investigating Dhamma to dwelling in jhana

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Buddhism

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ISBN10: 1105671755
ISBN13: 9781105671753
Publisher: Lulu.com
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Satipaṭṭhāna (Foundations of mindfulness) is the Buddha's method of wisdom contemplation, best known through the early Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, which certainly ranks one of the most studied in the Pali Canon. Unfortunately, there is much in it that is interpreted neither consistently nor convincingly, including the role it demands for jhāna. Rethinking Satipaṭṭhāna is a critical rereading and reevaluation of the early teachings that vindicates the Sutta as well-composed, coherent and functionally straightforward in virtually all of its details. Satipaṭṭhāna is the practice of investigation that develops the skill of apprehension in Dhammic terms. It selects a particular Dhamma teaching, then investigates, verifies and internalizes it in terms of direct experience. Although it focuses on impermanence and non-self, it is applicable to a large range of experientially based teachings. As in the acquisition of any advanced skill-from playing the cello to driving a car- satipaṭṭhāna begins with a conceptual basis, that through repetition is internalized as increasingly effortless know-how, even while the content of the skill remains the same. The end result is immediate and spontaneous knowledge and vision, effectively seeing through the eyes of the Buddha. Progressive stillness in jhāna proceeds in step with the progressive effortlessness of Dhammic know-how.

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