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RIGHT MINDFULNESS
SAMMÃ SATI

SAMÃDHIKKHANDA
- SAMMÃ VÃYÃMA (VIRIYA)
- SAMMÃ SATI (SATI)
- SAMMÃ SAMÃDHI (EKAGGATÃ)
Noble Eightfold Path : 7th Factor
 Sati/Mindfulness: Mental Factor Defined
› Presence of mind
› Attentiveness to the
present
› Characteristic: not
wobbling (not floating
away from the object)
› Function ± non-
forgetfulness; no confusion
Bhikkhu Bodhi 1
(Sati - comes from a root
word that means µto
remember¶)
› mindful of things that are
taking place.
› chief characteristic is µnot
floating away¶;
› Acts like a gatekeeper at
the six sense doors
› one of the five spiritual
powers
› one of the seven factors of
enlightenment
Mehm Tin Mon2
(sati can function as memory
and can be developed)

1=A Comprehnsive Manual of Abhidhamma; 2= Buddha Abhidhamma

Sati &Realising Dhamma

Dhamma =Ultimate Truth

¬ To realise Ultimate Truth, and

¬ For the Truth to be liberating,

¬ Dhamma has to be experienced/penetrated or

¶seen directly· ² INSIGHT

SATI ² instrumental in realising Dhamma
¬ brings the field of experience into focus and

¬ makes it accessible to INSIGHT

 Practice of Mindfulness

¬ Bare attention to what ¬ All judgments and

is present
¬ Mind is present, open,
quiet and alert
¬ Contemplating the
present
interpretations have to
be suspended, or
¬ if they occur, just
registered and
dropped.

¬ Simply note whatever comes up just as it is occurring,

¬ Mind stays firmly in the here and now, not slipping or
wandering away, not distracted.
 SEEING ² MIRAGE OR REALITY
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!hen an objects comes into view,
¬ The mind perceives its object free from
conceptualization only briefly.
¬ immediately after grasping the initial impression, it
launches on a course of ideation by which it seeks to
interpret the object to itself
¬ by positing concepts ¬ joining the concepts into
constructs ¬ weaving the mutually corroborative
constructs together into complex interpretative
schemes ¬the presented object appears only dimly
through dense layers of ideas and views.
Papaña
¬ Papaña - Process of mental construction in the
absence or weakness of sati, clouded by
unwholesome mental factors (lobha, dosa, moha)
¬ ´elaboration,µ ´embellishment,µ or ´conceptual
proliferation.µ
¬ block out the presentational immediacy of
phenomena;
¬ So that we come to know object ´at a distance,µ not
as it really is.
¬ screen cognition;
Papaña
¬ Serve a basis for projections- the deluded mind
projects its own internal constructs outwardly,
ascribing them to the object as if they really
belonged to it.
¬ So that what we know as the final object of
cognition = a patchwork product, not the original
article.
¬ The deluded mind builds and adds something else
(fabrication) to what is given in immediate
experience
Papaña ² Rau a El
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¬ Based on the perceiving of ¶such fabricated
product· of a deluded mind (not actually seeing ¶the
object as it is·), we plan and act!! & suffer!!!
¬ The defilements (lobha, dosa, moha, etc) create the
embellishments, and cause distortion.
¬ To correct the erroneous notions is the task of
wisdom,
¬ it is the task of right mindfulness is to clear up the
cognitive field for wisdom to have direct access to
the object as it is in itself, uncluttered by the
conceptual elaborations.
Foods & Cultures & ¶Perceptions·
¬ Radish soup or pickle ² a common food fit for
human consumption among Malaysians, Thais,
Chinese etc;
¬ Banana shoot/influorescence ² a delicacy in
Thailand and Malaysia
¬ How do you like fried smelly tofu or cheese?

How do you react when the host serves you with hot
radish soup or banana shoot fried with belacan?
Sati & Perceptions & Reactions
¬ Radish ² as cow feed in Bangladesh
Banana shoot/influorescence ²animal fodder in Sri
Lanka
How do think some Bangladesh/Sri Lankan guests
may react/interpret the serving of radish soup or
fried banana shoots to them?
Sati absent or clouded by mental defilements:
indignant ² continue eating or thinking the host
treats them with contempt?
Sati Present: they are just foods, pleasant or not
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 1.1 mindfulness of breathing
1.2 mindfulness of postures
1.3 mindfulness and clear comprehension
1.4 meditation of the unattractiveness of body
1.5 Analyses of the body into elements
1.6 cemetery meditations

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