A History of Mindfulness by Bhikkhu Sujato

Author:Bhikkhu Sujato [Sujato, Bhikkhu]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mindfulness, suttas, samatha, Buddhism, meditation, vipassana, history
ISBN: 978-1-921842-13-9
Publisher: Santipada
Published: 2012-09-20T00:00:00+00:00

Here, just as in the Īśa, two contrasting contemplations are given. But the contrast is really a complement, so the full realization of these two contemplations leads to one goal.

The Śvetāśvatara’s use of anupassanā is explicitly metaphysical.

‘The one controller of the many, inactive,

Who makes the one seed manifold,

Standing in the self—the wise who contemplate him,

To them belongs eternal bliss, not to others.’269

Here, too, there is a connection between anupassanā and the ‘one’. The wise are to contemplate the one, inactive source, not the multiplicity of appearance; only this leads to happiness. The Bṛhadāraṇyaka also uses anupassanā as a contemplation, a beholding, of the divine.

‘If one clearly contemplates him as the self, as God,

As the Lord of what has become and what will be,

One does not shrink away from him.’270

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