Q: Does the Buddha ever mention the term manasikara in his mindfulness instructions?
A:Not that I know of. The term figures most prominently in Abhidhamma-based treatises on Buddhist psychology. In the Buddha’s practical instructions on both samatha (tranquility meditation) and vipassana (insight meditation), the terms sati and sampajanna appear most often.
Q: Does the Buddha ever mention the term manasikara in his mindfulness instructions?
A:Not that I know of. The term figures most prominently in Abhidhamma-based treatises on Buddhist psychology. In the Buddha’s practical instructions on both samatha (tranquility meditation) and vipassana (insight meditation), the terms sati and sampajanna appear most often.
That doesn't surprise me, FijiNut, thanks for bringing it up.
kind regards
Ben
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Q: Does the Buddha ever mention the term manasikara in his mindfulness instructions?
A:Not that I know of. The term figures most prominently in Abhidhamma-based treatises on Buddhist psychology. In the Buddha’s practical instructions on both samatha (tranquility meditation) and vipassana (insight meditation), the terms sati and sampajanna appear most often.
alan wrote:Nice, fijiNut. But was the sutta you posted referring to mindfulness instructions?
Since it needs to be spelled out to you in obvious black and white:
There are things that are the basis for the enlightenment factor of mindfulness: frequently giving careful attention[yoiniso manasikara] to them is the nutrient for the arising of the unarisen enlightenment factor of mindfulness and for the fulfillment by development of the arisen enlightenment factor of mindfulness. - SN V 65 CDB 1569.
>> Do you see a man wise[enlightened/ariya]in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
Thanks tilt.
So the sutta fijiNut quoted: did it refer to basic mindfulness instructions?
The sutta you quoted: is it in that context?
Thanks for pointing things out in black and white. I do appreciate that.
Sure.
Just asking about the sutta you quoted. Context would be nice.
"It would seem so" might make sense to some, but please forgive my ignorance. I'm just learning. And you are the big expert. So for all of those reading who are still learning, would you please explain?
Thanks.
alan wrote:Sure.
Just asking about the sutta you quoted. Context would be nice.
"It would seem so" might make sense to some, but please forgive my ignorance. I'm just learning. And you are the big expert. So for all of those reading who are still learning, would you please explain?
Thanks.
The question is do I want to type out the text in detail? No. Other things to do, and it will not change the point that yoniso manasikara is used in context of helping establish mindfulness practice. If you have Ven Bodhi's translation, it is referenced easily enough for you. Right now I have some irregular verbs to learn.
>> Do you see a man wise[enlightened/ariya]in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723