Wisdom Insight Letter No. 213
Mind and Mind factors (Citta and Cetasika) 17: saññā (perception) 2
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The mind factor ‘saññā (perception)’ is always present when the mind arises, so there is not a single moment without ‘awareness’.
Through ‘awareness’, we can perceive what we see and what we hear, and when we hear a sound, we perceive what sound it is, whose voice it is, etc.
Are you aware of each movement of awareness or memory during your daily activities?
In your daily life, you recognize an object, remember how to use that object, and use it. The series of processes that you notice and proceed with can bring about such results because the mind factor of awareness works.
Every moment we simply act and think is the mind and mind factor working together to do things.
This is how habits and individual tendencies are formed. When your habits or tendencies are strongly formed with a focus on yourself, they appear as a strong ego.
If you can become aware of your own saññā fixed ideas through right mindfulness (Samma-Sati), you can practice and lead to the right view (Samma-Ditthi) and a right life (Samma-Vaca, Kammanta and Ajiva) through right reflection, that is, right thinking (Samma-Sankappa) of the Eightfold Path.
Right effort (Samma-Vayama) refers to the practice of increasing wholesome minds and stopping and reducing unwholesome minds through right awareness (Samma-Sati) in each moment.
If you start by becoming aware of your own patterned saññā ‘perceptions’ that create craving (Lobha) or aversion (Dosa) in response to good or bad things, you will be able to reduce unwholesome minds and maintain equanimity; tranquility (Samma-Samadhi).
May everyone experience the benefit of a calm mind through right mindfulness(Samma-sati)!
May you develop your Sati through Vipassana!
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May the Buddha’s teachings last a long time!
Bhavatu Sabba Sotiṁ ca Maṅgalaṁ ca!!
May everyone be led on the path of peace and blessing!!
Sādhu Sādhu Sādhu!