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Old 06-14-2011, 09:53 PM   #9
Phoneemer

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The Samyutta Nikaya defines clear comprehension as knowing the arising, persisting, and declining of feelings, thoughts, and perceptions. Sati is defined as satipatthana.
So if we refer to SN 36.7, sampajanna extends itself to asammoha sampajanna, namely, clearly comprehending the significance of what is occuring. Sampajanna is not just clearly comprehending the meditation object, just with bare awareness, but sampajanna is also comprehending the meditation object with reflective wisdom.

If a monk is thus mindful and clearly comprehending, ardent, earnest and resolute, and a pleasant feeling arises in him, he knows: 'Now a pleasant feeling has arisen in me. It is conditioned, not unconditioned. Conditioned by what? Even by this body it is conditioned. And this body, indeed, is impermanent, compounded, dependently arisen. But if this pleasant feeling that has arisen, is conditioned by the body which is impermanent, compounded and dependently arisen; how could such a pleasant feeling be permanent?'
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