Recollectedness of Breathing | Revisiting Anapanasati Meditation Practice

-Shedding some light on the meaning of 'sati', which is usually translated as 'mindfulness', and why it is NOT a form of "focusing" practice. Thus 'mindfulness' is actually quite an unfortunate term when it comes to conveying the meaning of 'sati'. '
-'Sati' in its core is always a form of knowledge, and knowledge is not something you can attend to as the object of your senses, but something you can RECOLLECT (once developed) on the level of your mind. It's of little surprise then that the Buddha said if 'sati' is developed to the necessary extent it will result in full UNDERSTANDING of the nature of dukkha.
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[@khamano]

www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.25.budd.html 364. The monk who abides in the Dhamma, delights in the Dhamma, meditates on the Dhamma, and bears the Dhamma well in mind - he does not fall away from the sublime Dhamma. www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.02.budd.html 31. The monk who delights in heedfulness and looks with fear at heedlessness advances like fire, burning all fetters, small and large. 🙏🙏🙏

[@Countcordeaux]

Samma Sati - "Correct Recollection", recollection being not only the verbal form, but the more idiomatic English term for recollectedness.

[@cliffmilbrun2803]

32:50 calming the bodily Sankharas

[@hariharry391]

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[@chensweekee5067]

Mindfulness as noun. Becoming mindfulness as such no doing. Sati sampajanna, remember to have clear comprehension.

[@chensweekee5067]

Sati sampajanna, becoming mindfulness, there is clear comprehension. Becoming "mindfulness" (wakefulness), there is no one doing the recollection. Only knowing and clear comprehension.

[@Nature-ve3yo]

1) Bhante thank you alot for your service to humanity I really appreciate your teaching, Bhante need some advice sorry for writing a lot of text but its easy to missunderstand me therefor I try to write to be understood, the little things I have understood have helped me already. In my situaiton of being trapped in pain am I doing something in my thoughts to be in this situation of being trapped in pain and what am I doing so i can understand it and volitionaly choose to not do it by not understanding what I am doing and that I am resposible for it it I cant stop it. On the other hand if I understood what I am doing and that I am responsible for it then I would use my faith and belief to not do it. Just allowing your mind to think it doesnt help me get clear about what my doing is remember I have been doing it so much so it has become autopilot , is thinking a doing or do you mean to believe it to be true like other therapies like CBT says "just dont believe your thoughts". Just to not believe my thoughts to be truth? Bhante who is thinking and again is it meant believing the thought about the me story initialy is it the mind on its own that is thinking the thought on its own about the story or me (by thinking is it meant believing?) if it the mind thinks it or believes it on its own then is my doing to believe it to be truth and if yes can you explain why that it impies aversion to believe something ? Is this what is meant by delighting accepting thoughts of ill will that the mind on its own first thinks a thought of ill will even if it is a story about me then I start believing it to be truth which would be my doing? Again I am really sorry for being a bit confusing in my writing I am very thankful for your contribution towards humanity Bhante by the teaching. 2)you have said "you think you act only when you are kind of aware of what you want to do but even now while we are talking my hands are moving my feet change position all of these things so the body keeps acting in its own domain in its own regard but you regard that as seccondary to my action that i choose to voluntarily volitionaly perform its other way around the only reason you can choose and perform things with extra layer of volition is beacuse the body allows you" Bhante how to see this in regard to the the mind and the thought does the mind and how does it act on its own and how does the mind act on its own domain by themselves without me can for example the mind be fearful of the thought on its own and can the mind suffer beacuse of the pain on its own and does the mind think the thought about the me story on its own also think fearful thoughts or to be averse,bothered on its own and is it meaning it is averse bothered with the thought thinking an angry thought and thereby attacking the thought which opressed the mind on its own. What is the right order of understanding how the mind and the thought act on their own and what is the wrong assumption there and beginingless ownership what is my volitional intentional action that I choose to perform that is put first? 3)in a video you have said while talking about the eye organ "then the choice that you can excercise over the organs lumps of flesh of your eyes is the choice within that domain you can choose not to look at this to look at something else but you have no choice about seeing as in the domain the seeing you are subjected to it Regarding things as mine is a mistake beginingless mistake but its nevertheless a mistake. The domain of vision not the particular sight but the domain of those senses its pretty much inaccessile to you its given you are subjected to it and then your sense of ownership then can not step outside of that domain of any of those domains. How to see this in regard to the mind and thoughts? Need clarity to see the domain that is there on its own which is inaccesble and what they do on its own for example can you use my situation of being trapped in pain what the mind and thought do on their own and then my doing and also within that domain what choice we can excercise within that domain. 4) What is the wrong order assumed as a starting point wrongly in regard to the mind and thoughts and also the right order? and how to see the situation of being trapped in pain terms of citta nimitta and seeing citta and mano correctly what they do on its own and my doing.

[@cliffmilbrun2803]

So knowing I'm breathing in and out I have full knowledge of the basis of my existence and activities. I can only forget that if I'm ignoring it and that opens the door to all avijjas? I'm aware of my body and breathing is peripheral to the body while it's within this body so I'm not directly attending my breath but I know it through my awareness of my body

[@seanl.1117]

Bhante, thank you for this talk bringing forth a revolutionary approach of anapanasati, sadhu sadhu sadhu. Would it be then considered wise for disciples that have yet to reach stream-entry to engage in anapanasati ? With metta.

[@HillsideHermitage]

It would depend on WHY they would want to practice anapanasati. If it's for the purpose of aiding their effort towards obtaining the Right view, then it's fine.

[@seanl.1117]

@@HillsideHermitage Yes it is for such an endeavor. Thank you Bhante for taking the time to answer, it is most precious. May you be well, with metta.

[@thepaulhowell]

So are you saying that sati is the sole aim of anapanasati or is there more going on? Is there both sampajana and patissati? I'm understanding you to say that since sati is associated with memory, that one needs to have right view in order to know and have discernment of that which is wholesome and unwholesome with regards to the N8FP in order to properly observe the breath. Would you first employ bare awareness (sampajana) in order to just observe what is happening and then know the context through recollection (paitssati) as a basis of right action?

[@cameronwarnick3692]

So to develop for instance an understanding of anatta, one would just maintain a recollection or context of anatta and abide with that. Is this a correct interpretation? So really the reason why sotopanna and above were the ones instructed on anapanasati is because they had already established the correct context or frame of recollection, so naturally that would work in conjunction with the practice of anapanasati. So to reach sotopanna, could one simply abide in the context of those factors until they are realized? And naturally elements such as sense restraint etc will become pervasive in life simply on account of right view?

[@cajuputoil3468]

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