Self Awareness Through Meditation

Author(s): Ranjitsingh Kumat
Publisher: Ranjitsingh Kumat

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MEDITATION IN BUDDHA SYSTEM VIPASSANA
back to the head in the reverse order. We concentrate on each part of
the body, both outside and inside, and see if there are any sensations. 2. Vednanupassana—To observe the sensations on each part of the body.
We just observe the sensations without evaluating them as good or bad and proceed to next part of the body. We avoid craving and aversion
towards sensations and thus maintain equanimity towards them. 3. Chittanupassana—To observe the mind, the thoughts arising therein
and the sensations arising on the body as a result of these thoughts. These are also to be observed as they are, without evaluating the thoughts and sensations as good or bad. Dhammanupassana—To observe the Dhamma or the Nature. To observe the nature of the sensations—the nature of arising and disappearing. By observing what is, one sees the Dhamma, the Nature, and thus remains in equanimity
Thus a person experiences in the body pleasant or unpleasant or neutral nsations and realizes that they are illusory and ephemeral. Realizing the truth that whenever there is contact in the body, sensations pass away as soon as they arise, the mediator is freed from craving, becomes fully aware and conscious of what is happening around, and reaches the state where there is no more sensation (the cessation of sensation or vedana nirodh sacca), there is no craving or desire and thus becomes fully liberated. To be constantly aware of the self is the characteristic of the Enlightened.
Sampajanna (Full and Right Knowledge)
Sampajanna is a very important technical term in Pali language and one should know its meaning thoroughly. It has been defined as “One who knows impermanence in a right way (as well as suffering and egolessness), has wisdom, or ‘sampjanna’. Further it has also been stated, “One who understands the totality clearly with wisdom from all angles or who knows distinctly the ultimate has 'sampajanna’102. What is right awareness? A meditator who dwells ardently, with constant and thorough understanding and right awareness, observing the sensations in the body, having removed craving and aversion towards them and the worldly things is said to have right awareness. A meditator understands thoroughly the bodily sensations arising in him, knows their persistence and knows their vanishing. He knows perceptions arising in him, knows their persistence and knows their transitory nature. The meditator realizes the characteristic of impermanence and that too on the basis