There is often a question about adukkhamasukhaṃ or neutral sensations.The Buddha did not mean the initial, surface sensations which are neither pleasant nor unpleasant. That is totally different and causes craving and aversion because people get bored with it, lose interest, and want something else. Their experience has become stale. They want something more or new, something they don’t have. This is their old habit pattern. The next enlightenment factor is samādhi—concentration or absorption. Sammā-samādhi takes us beyond all the planes of existence and results in full liberation from the bondage of birth and death, and from every type of suffering. It is practised with sampajañña, the awareness of the mind-matter phenomenon and the realization of its nature of arising and passing. With the practice of sammā-samādhi (with sampajañña), one after the other, the meditator attains the fruit of sotāpanna, sakadāgāmī, anāgāmī, and arahant. Thus, samādhi becomes an enlightenment factor. Upekkhā—equanimity is the seventh factor of enlightenment. Like sati, it must be present from the beginning to the end, at every step. Whichever other factor is being developed, awareness and equanimity must always be present. When the bojjhaṅgas are practiced and when each is perfect, enlightenment is properly, they increase and become perfect perfect. This is the whole process of Vipassana. ~SNG @ Chronicles of Dhamma!!
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 10:08:33 +0000
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