Mindfulness contemplation, topics

 These are my notes from the greater discourse on mindfulness. It gives many topics that one can contemplate and remember to investigate.

I went a long time just trying to do concentration practice. Well worth it, but it got stale. Currently, I am looking more at greed, anger, and delusion. Is it there? Is it not? And also the 7 factors for awakening. The earth, air, water, fire investigation is also useful.

Mn 10

Maha mindfulness topics

Gil fronsdal talks on these topics https://www.audiodharma.org/series/1/talk/1742/

 sutta 30 of Wings of Awakening

"Wings to Awakening: An Anthology from the Pali Canon" https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/wings/index.html which provides context.

Or here just for the sutta itself.

"Satipatthana Sutta: Frames of Reference" https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.010.than.html

Mindfulness of body

Around the mouth, body. In and of itself. Without greed and distress for the outside world

Also, origination and passing away, in line with causes and consequences

Without regard to likes and dislikes in the outside world

In long, out long. Or in short, out short.

Sensitive to body fabrication

Calming body fabrication

Walking, standing, sitting, lying down

Activities of the body. Fully alert.

Going forward, returning. Be alert. Looking toward or away. Bending and extending. Carrying cloak, robe, bowl. Eat drink, chew, savor. Urinate, defecate. Talking and silent. All alert

Sorting grain. Sorting and analyzing.

Parts of the body.

Earth property. Liquid. Fire. Wind/air.

Contemplate corpses. And my body will do this too.

Mindfulness of feelings

Pleasant, unpleasant, neutral

Same, but in the flesh or not in the flesh

There are feelings… as knowledge and recollection, but not entangling.

Mindfulness of mental fabrications/mind

Passion/ Greed and non greed

Aversion and non aversion

Delusion and non-dillusion

Constricted, scattered, enlarged, not enlarged, surpassed, not surpassed, concentrated, not concentrated, released, not released

Mindfulness of mental qualities

5 hindrances, present or not present. Wheel.

5 clinging aggregates

7 factors for awakening, present and not present

6 sense realms/objects

Four noble truths

Understand and identify suffering

Cause of suffering is to be abandoned

The cessation is to be achieved

The path is to be developed.