Pleasure leads to preferences or pre-references, which lead to always wanting to be somewhere else, never being fully here now. How does a feelingfull person find a way out of the wheel of repetition?

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.............The Mahasatipatthana Sutra
...................New Translation and Links
............................. Right Mindfulness
...................................... The Three Depths
...................................... Mindfulness of the Body
...................................... Mindfulness of Feelings and State of Mind


Subject : The Mahasatipatthana Sutra

This is the most important, most fundamental Buddhist text.

The Mahasatipatthana Sutra teaches the 4 foundations of mindfulness.

"Mindful, he breathes in, and mindful, he breathes out."

As a child, like many others, I had a good feeling for awareness of the whole body and did some sort of breathing relaxation every night before sleep - then I read the Mahasatipatthana Sutra, and I started counting the breaths like the commentary suggested ... then I started splitting the body into hands arms legs feet ... 10 areas to fit with the counting ... this may have been an interesting exercise in concentration, will-power and discipline, but it had little to do with Buddhas message ...

I am not sure that I am competent to interpret the Buddhas teaching for others ... but I am sure there is a need to question his teaching or how it is recorded, and here I am competent.

Apparently nothing Buddha said was written down until around 200 years after he died ... by this time his ideas had been rigourously fixed in long-winded repititious formulas. These are boring. - It is difficult to alleviate the suffering in the world by using these tedious and often misleading texts.

The Forum
The Mahasatipatthana Thread

.............The Mahasatipatthana Sutra
...................New Translation and Links
............................. Right Mindfulness
...................................... The Three Depths
...................................... Mindfulness of the Body
...................................... Mindfulness of Feelings and State of Mind