11/30/2022 0 Comments Vijjacharana sampana guna![]() This, meditators, is how a meditator understands thoroughly. And how, meditators, does a meditator understand thoroughly? Herein, meditators, a meditator knows sensations arising in him, knows their persisting, and knows their vanishing he knows perceptions arising in him, knows their persisting and knows their vanishing he knows each initial application (of the mind on an object) arising in him, knows its persisting and knows its vanishing. Evam kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu sampajano hoti.2 Kathanca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu sampajano hoti? Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu vidita vedana uppajjantividita vedana uppajjanti, vidita upatthahanti, vidita abbhattham gacchanti vidita sanna uppajjanti, vidita upatthahanti, vidita abbhattham gacchanti vidita vitakka uppajjanti, vidita upatthahanti, vidita abbhattham gacchanti. In the Samyutta Nikaya, he defines sampajano as follows. In the Suttapitaka, the Buddha gave two explanations of the term sampajanna. Otherwise it is mere sati, which is mere remembrance or awareness. And what, meditators, is right awareness? Here, a meditator dwells ardently, with constant thorough understanding and right awareness, observing the body in the body, having removed craving and aversion towards this world (of mind and matter).įrom this it becomes evident that according to the Buddha, whenever there is sammasati or satipatthana, it is always with sampajanna. Katama ca bhikkhave, samma-satisamma-sati? Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu kaye kayanupassi viharati atapi sampajano satima vineyya loke abhijjhadomanassam.1 Whenever the Buddha was asked to describe sati (mindfulness or awareness), his explanation invariably included the term sampajanna. In the present paper, we will discuss how sampajanna or sampajana is explained by the Buddha in the suttas and how the term can be correctly translated into English. In the previous paper on sampajanna, we discussed sampajanna as it is defined etymologically in the Abhidhamma Pitaka and commentaries. ![]()
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