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**Viyzarei** · 04-10-2012, 07:59 AM

Mindfulness, or the word most often translated as "mindfulness" (sati in Pali), means "remembering" as Element noted.

If you read the Pali texts about mindfulness, you'll find it simply means to be aware of what is coming up in experience, as it is coming up, without getting trapped in it. For example, you notice a particular emotion. You notice that it consists of a particular sensory tone that is either pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. You notice it comes with a mental object (thought). You know that it is not-self. You know that clinging to it brings no satisfaction. You know that it will pass away.

(These are the three qualities of impermanence (anicca), not-self (anatta), and unsatisfactoriness (dukkha)). You do not forget that it's just a feeling or a thought, and thus do not get caught in it, don't identify with it, don't get swept along by it and end up acting on it.

Developing this ability to remember what's right in front of you (parimukkha), and gives you the power to then renounce unwholesome/unskillful habits of mind and conduct.

04-10-2012, 07:59 AM	#7
Viyzarei Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 404 Senior Member	Mindfulness, or the word most often translated as "mindfulness" (sati in Pali), means "remembering" as Element noted. If you read the Pali texts about mindfulness, you'll find it simply means to be aware of what is coming up in experience, as it is coming up, without getting trapped in it. For example, you notice a particular emotion. You notice that it consists of a particular sensory tone that is either pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. You notice it comes with a mental object (thought). You know that it is not-self. You know that clinging to it brings no satisfaction. You know that it will pass away. (These are the three qualities of impermanence (anicca), not-self (anatta), and unsatisfactoriness (dukkha)). You do not forget that it's just a feeling or a thought, and thus do not get caught in it, don't identify with it, don't get swept along by it and end up acting on it. Developing this ability to remember what's right in front of you (parimukkha), and gives you the power to then renounce unwholesome/unskillful habits of mind and conduct.
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