Tetrads, Anapanasati

Just a note that I am reading Right Mindfulness (https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/RightMindfulness/Section0001.html) and it is clarifying a lot of my practice. But, a few notes:

1. I don't like the word Mindfulness because it is overloaded with too many meanings. I now use the bulky but precise phrase: Mind-Memory-Framework-Yoke. Mindfulness involves picking a framework, applying memory to stick with and yoke oneself to that framework. In that way, mindfulness is active, even when people do "mental noting". Because mental noting IS a framework itself.

2. Right mindfulness is that which gives insight and develops concentration and discernment. But there are many "almost right" mindfulness'es that are, unfortunately, misleading or wrong. The book covers this in  Chap4 and other places.

3. There is a ton of vocabulary and one needs to have a lot of attunement and "on the cushion" experience for the book to make a difference. Otherwise, it's too easy to have all this floating as abstract ideas. If one reads this first, one needs to be extra careful to notice when one is and isn't in line with the 4 tetrads. The danger is to copy the tetrads and match the "shape" but not the heartwood of the tetrads AND to mistake the shape for the real thing. Trial and error is key here.