Re: choosing satipatthana

Dear Robert,
You are asking the hardest question for
satipatthana.No one i met know the answer.From U.
prof. to forest monks.I did ask mahasi sayadaw 's best
known teachers,they avoided  me directly.In handbook
of mediatation by nyanaponika-he mentioned mahasi's
teacher cannot understand satipatthana sutta,maybe he
read the com and just couldn't understand it at
all.Com cannot be wrong in this comment but maybe in
some words grammar,history.
Why  emerging from citta /dhamma cannot work for
sariputta /moggallana who is samatha yanika better in
feeling for sariputta,dhatu /inferior for moggalana
.Why dhamma and citta cannot work for buddha's best
students.Unthinkable for me until this moment for at
least ten years!Hopefully not like this forever.




--- Robert Kirkpatrick
<robertkirkpatrick@...> wrote:
> Dear Teng kee,
>  you wrote:
>
> ---Dear Jonothan,
> You said any 4 objects can be done for anyone.Please
> beware that
> com said
> kaya and vedana for samathayanika /craving people
> but citta and
> dhamma for
> sukkhavipassaka /viewing people.
> ______
> I think we have to look at a few areas here. In the
> visuddhmagga
> (I don't have it with me) I think I saw a section
> where it says
> that the differnt types of people is a general
> classification
> and in fact everyone has all the bad traits in
> varying degrees.
>
> Here is a section from another commentary:
> In the "Dispeller of Delusion"(PTS) p 137 paragraph
> 564 it says “In respect of the classification of the
> Foundations of Mindfulness. And this also takes
> place
> in multiple consciousness in the prior stage (prior
> to
> supramundane). For it lays hold of the body with one
> consciousness and with others feeling etc.”
>
> If anyone has further commets I would be interested.
> robert
>
>
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