{"id":15615,"date":"2024-09-12T02:04:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T02:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/newsite\/?p=15615"},"modified":"2024-09-12T02:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T02:24:21","slug":"on-your-topic-of-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/newsite\/waxhawluke\/on-your-topic-of-looking\/","title":{"rendered":"On your topic of \u201clooking\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On your topic of \u201clooking\u201d
\nI find Bhante Punnaji\u2019s translations to be useful. He translates sati\/Satipatthana as \u201cintrospection\u201d (looking within), which is step 1 on the \u201cseven steps to awakening\u201d (his words) and then he translates Upekka as \u201capperception\u201d (seeing within). So the process of awakening begins with looking within and culminates in seeing within. And what is seen? That the world is not out there. It is in literally in here. In this process of perception. When seen clearly in this way, mind \u201cawakens from the dream of existence\u201d (his words again) and has a \u201cparadigm shift from existential thinking to experiential thinking\u201d Point being that it begins and ends with looking and seeing clearly so that, as Dhammarato would say, \u201cwe don\u2019t step in any cow pies as we cross the pasture\u201d For me, this upekka is the direct seeing that what we call the world is a projection of the ignorant, desire-driven mind. When it sees, it simply knows and lets go. \u201cIt realizes the reality of non-grasping\u201d (Ajahn Chah) This present awareness un-intoxicated is bright and blissful, needing nothing added. <\/h6>\n

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Waxhaw Luke On your topic of \u201clooking\u201d I find Bhante Punnaji\u2019s translations to be useful. He translates sati\/Satipatthana as \u201cintrospection\u201d (looking within), which is step 1 on the \u201cseven steps to awakening\u201d (his words) and then he translates Upekka as \u201capperception\u201d (seeing within). So the process of awakening begins with looking within and culminates in seeing within. And what is seen? That the world is not out there. It is in literally in here. In this process of perception. When seen clearly in this way, mind \u201cawakens from the dream of existence\u201d (his words again) and has a \u201cparadigm shift from existential thinking to experiential thinking\u201d Point being that it begins and ends with looking and seeing clearly so that, as Dhammarato would say, \u201cwe don\u2019t step in any cow pies as we cross the pasture\u201d For me, this upekka is the direct seeing that what we call the world is a projection of the ignorant, desire-driven mind. When it sees, it simply knows and lets go. \u201cIt realizes the reality of non-grasping\u201d (Ajahn Chah) This present awareness un-intoxicated is bright and blissful, needing nothing added. EmailURLViews: 16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":15617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[160],"class_list":["post-15615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teachers","tag-meditation-technique"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t