‘Evam Me Sutam

‘Evam Me Sutam…’Mind is the forerunner. Everything that we know and experience is seen and touched first by the mind. It is the mind that is ‘e most amazing show on Earth and Beyond’, by far. And so much more interesting and exciting than anything else, in this Satipatthana practice.So would you like to watch?To follow, you may take with you one thing only: Awareness! You might experience some difficulty leaving everything else behind!As for myself I am eternally grateful to those who taught me Satipatthana. e Buddha, the Dhamma, the Sangha.When we practice in a way that, what we experience is a ‘pair’, an object and a knowing of it, we don’t experience the knowing of it as an object by itself, but very easily we take it as an ‘I’.We are told that this knowing is not an ‘I’ and that it is unstable; but that, is an understanding of an intellectual nature. Because it is not easy for us to experience it first hand in this way.When we actually practise it, is very hard to see that it is not ‘I’ who is ‘thinking’, ‘paining’, ‘wanting’, ‘planning’, and ‘feeling angry’.So most people don’t know the knowing mind and very rarely they might get to the point where they can see the knowing mind that is aware of the object.e only way to go beyond this kind of understanding is to experience that knowing or noting mind as object.Only when we practice Cittanupassana we can clearly see that another knowing mind arises and becomes aware of the noting mind as its object.And yet another knowing mind arises and is aware of all of the above! And so on.en we can clearly see that noting mind is object and not ‘I’. e idea of ‘knowing’ as ‘I’, simply doesn’t make sense any more.And that, is not intellectual understanding, that is experiential understanding, that is Dhamma.People who come from other kinds of practising, often find it difficult to stop having as reference point-anchor the ‘rising and falling’, of the abdomen.Once you get familiar and able to see the noting mind you will find that the noting mind is just as ‘big’ and reliable if not bigger than the abdominal movement to have as reference point-anchor, in the practice.e noting mind in this practice is the reference point-anchor, and all other minds are objects.However Anapana and the ‘rising and falling’ of the abdomen have their use here too.Most people ask: ‘What is the difference between the Mahasi method and this one?’ e method is the same the technique is different because the emphasis is on the mind.
from - Contemplation of the Mind