Budhism meditation philosopy

Buddhism Meditation
The philosophy of The Buddha's great dissertate on the practice of meditation and mindfulness is the "MahaSatipatthana Sutta" (Pali idiom),and can interpret to "the Fourfold Focus of Mindfulness" the object and the ways to the goal of full Enlightenment. Attentiveness to the movements of the body, to the ever-changing states of the mind, is to be cultivated in order that their real nature should be known.

The way to Enlightenment, as all Buddhists should know is the Noble Eightfold Path. The fourfold Focus of Mindfulness constitutes only a part of this Path. Each of these eight factors are necessary to achieve the goal of full Enlightenment. lf any were redundant, then the Lord Buddha would have taught a 7-fold path, or a 6-fold path etc. So, in your practicing meditation of Buddhism, please keep in mind that all eight factors of the noble Eightfold Path should be cultivated as the "one and only way".
Now the teaching by the Lord Buddha, is a very sophisticated practice. So sophisticated that the Lord Buddha said that if anyone should develop them in the way he described for only seven days, then they would achieve full Enlightenment. Many meditators reading this may have gone on such a retreat for nine days or even more and not yet fulfilled this most glorious of the Lord Buddha's promises. Why?, I think, you were not following the Lord Buddha's instructions.

If you want to practise the fourfold Focus of Mindfulness in the way that the Lord Buddha said leads so rapidly to Enlightenment, then certain things are required before you begin. The essential preparations are in short, full cultivation of the other seven factors of the Noble Eightfold Path. Or, as the Lord Budda said one should maintain the five Precepts (the longer is better), abandon the five Hindrances and then practice maditation.

The supreme factor of the Noble Eightfold Path is to abandon all of the five Hindrances long enough to gain big Insight. the Lord Buddha stated that for the meditator who does not attain to Jhana, the five Hindrances together with dissatisfied and weariness intrude the mind and remain. Only when one does accomplish to Jhana do the five Hindrances together with discontent and weariness not invade one's mind and remain the way the Lord Buddha said it is.
Any meditator who has experienced the powerful Jhanas would know through that experience, and what happens after, what a mind without any Hindrances is sincerely like. The meditator who hasn't known Jhanas does not realise the many subtle forms Hindrances can take. They may think that the hindrances are abandoned but, the truth is, they just don't see them and so do not get great results in their meditation.

This means that the five Hindrances must be given up first before beginning any of the Focus of Mindfulness practices. Meditators attempt to practise the Satipatthana method with some of the Hindrances still remaining that they achieve no great or lasting result.

Having patiently completed the necessary preparations, the meditator sustains their mindfulness on one of the four focuses: their own body, the pleasure and pain related with each sense, the mind consciousness, and the objects of mind. When the Hindrances are gone and one can maintain one's powerful and understanding attention on these four objects, only then is it possible to realise that deep in our psyche, far deeper than the hide of intelligent thinking, we have been assuming a Self. We have been assuming that this body is "me" or "mine", that pleasure or pain has something to do with me, that the mind which looks on is our Soul or something close, and that the objects of mind such as thought or volition is a Self, me, or mine. In short, the purpose of the fourfold Focus of Mindfulness is to instruct one what to do when one has emerged from a Jhana, to uncover the deeply disguised delusion of a Soul and then see what the Lord Buddha saw, the Truth of Anatta.
This is not an easy thing to do, it is a long, challenging discipline, but it can be done, and one that can only be undertaken in retreat from the world and its cares. That is if one follows the Lord Buddha's instructions, Even a temporary retirement, course of this discipline, can have good results in that it establishes an posture of mind which can be applied to some degree in the ordinary situations of life.

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