Question 95: WHAT ARE THE FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF MINDFULNESS?

Question 95: WHAT ARE THE FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF MINDFULNESS?Answer: The Buddha taught the practice of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, which are four areas of focus or levels of contemplation: contemplation of the Body, Feelings, the Mind, and Truths.Through the Six Mindfulness Stages, practitioners develop sustained mindfulness. From this state, they become acutely aware of their body, observing and experiencing it as impermanent, impure, and subject to suffering. They can perceive the constant activity and tension within every cell of their body.As the mind deepens in stillness, right with such the body, practitioners perceive an intangible field of sensations within the body, called a mass of Feelings, aka a mass of awareness. Practitioners no longer see the physical body but realize this intangible mass of Feelings, appreciating the fleeting nature of pleasant and unpleasant variations.In deeper states of meditation, practitioners observe the abyss Mind within this mass of awareness. This is the source of all perceptions and actions. Without vigilance and constant reminders of ignorance and defilements, one may mistakenly identify this Mind as the enlightened one of the Buddha.At the ultimate level of meditation, practitioners recognize there is not a self within. They perceive the ultimate truth, or Dharma, which encompasses the universe, the Law of Karma, rebirth, the three realms and the six paths, the Four Noble Truths, etc., all at once, all in one.#Buddha, #Buddhism, #Buddhist, #Truedharma, #Meditation, #Enlightenment, #Buddhatemple, #TheLawofKarma, #Blessing, #Goodblessing, #Janna, #JannaMonastery, #JannaOrderMonastery, #LawOfKarma, #CauseAndEffect, #UniversalTruth, #KarmicRetribution, #AxiomaticTruth, #PhilosophyOfMind,