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This talk reviews a subcategory found in the Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness in the Satipatthana Sutta. The Six Sense Bases, termed Salayatana (sah-lah-yah-tuh-nah) in Pali, invites contemplation of the eyes and seeing, ear and hearing, nose and smelling, tongue and tasting, body and sensations and mind with cognition. An important concept for the practice of vipassana is nama/rupa, with nama representing the mind’s cognitive process as meaning-making occurs regarding the basic sensations experienced in life, represented as rupa. An important meditation practice regarding this contemplation is called “Guarding the Sense Doors”; a guided meditation practice regarding this accompanies this talk and can be found in the Audio Archive. Guarding the sense doors involves a persistent investigation regarding how raw sensory stimulation is transformed by the mental fabricating processes of the mind called sankhara (sahn-kah-rah) into self-experience. The goal of guarding this process with mindfulness is to discern the difference between emerging wholesome or unwholesome self-states, promoting wholesomeness and renouncing the unwholesome. Peter suggests that cultivating ongoing awareness of anicca (ah-nee-chah), the transitory nature of subjective experience, fosters this guarding process, furthering liberation from dukkha, distress and confusion. This process was further reviewed with reference to paticca samuppada (pah-tee-chah sahm-oo-pah-dah), a concept that is core to Buddhist understanding of karma. Guarding the sense doors was represented by a quote regarding paticca samuppada pointing out that awareness of how sense contact leads to feeling, then craving and clinging, which becomes the belief in an enduring, autonomous self, through what are called the fetters of becoming and adversely affected by dukkha. After the review there was a general discussion regarding contemplating salayatana and how this can be applied beneficially to ordinary life experience.
Here are the notes prepared for this talk, including notes previously developed regarding paticca samuppada: Salayatana, The Six Sense Bases and Contingent Provisional Emergence
Next week’s talk focuses on the Five Aggregates of Clinging. |
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