The Buddhist Path to Enlightenment (study)
by Dr Kala Acharya | 2016 | 118,883 words
This page relates 鈥楶ower of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness鈥� of the study on the Buddhist path to enlightenment. The Buddha was born in the Lumbini grove near the present-day border of India and Nepal in the 6th century B.C. He had achieved enlightenment at the age of thirty鈥揻ive under the 鈥楤odhi-tree鈥� at Buddha-Gaya. This study investigates the teachings after his Enlightenment which the Buddha decided to teach 鈥榦ut of compassion for beings鈥�.
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1.4. Power of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
The mindfulness, which is capable of distinguishing (=keeping in mind)corporeal dhammas, which is capable of discarding on wrong knowing, wrong perceiving, wrong viewing called 惫颈辫补濒濒腻蝉补诲丑补尘尘补蝉 (illusions) on 鈥渁ll bodily constituents (谤奴辫补办腻测补)鈥� as subha (comely ones), is accomplished through the noble path. It is, therefore, called 办腻测腻苍耻辫补蝉蝉补苍腻.
1. The mindfulness, which is capable of distinguishing (=keeping in mind) feeling, which is capable of discarding on wrong knowing, wrong perceiving, wrong viewing called 惫颈辫补濒濒腻蝉补-dhammas (illusions) on 鈥渇eeling鈥� as sukha (agreeable ones), is accomplished through the Noble Path. It is, therefore, called 惫别诲补苍腻苍耻辫补蝉蝉补苍腻.
2. The mindfulness, which is capable of distinguishing (=keeping in mind) consciousness, which is capable of discarding on wrong knowing, wrong perceiving, wrong viewing called 惫颈辫补濒濒腻蝉补-dhammas (illusions) on 鈥渃onsciousness鈥� as nicca (permanent ones), is accomplished through the noble path. It is, therefore, called 肠颈迟迟腻苍耻辫补蝉蝉补苍腻.
3. The mindfulness, which is capable of distinguishing (=keeping in mind) dhamma phenomena, which is capable of discarding on wrong knowing, wrong perceiving, wrong viewing called 惫颈辫补濒濒腻-sadhammas (illusions) on 鈥�dhamma phenomena鈥� as atta (self), is accomplished through the Noble Path. It is, therefore, called 诲丑补尘尘腻苍耻辫补蝉蝉补苍腻.[1]
Due to occurrence of capable of finishing four kinds of functions by a single mindfulness which associates with the noble path-knowledge, it has got designations as 办腻测腻苍耻辫补蝉蝉补苍腻sati辫补峁弓丑腻苍补, 惫别诲补苍腻苍耻辫补蝉蝉补苍腻sati-辫补峁弓丑腻苍补, 肠颈迟迟腻苍耻辫补蝉蝉补苍腻 sati辫补峁弓丑腻苍补, 诲丑补尘尘腻苍耻辫补蝉蝉补苍腻sati辫补峁弓丑腻苍补, respectively. It is, therefore, explained that 鈥�濒辞办耻迟迟补谤补尘补驳驳补办办丑补艈别 pana eka citteyeva labbhanti -at arising of the supramundane poble path (-moment) those are available in one mind moment only鈥�.[2]
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
MA I, p. 246
[2]:
Vbh-A II, p. 273, 274