Analysis of the Relationship between Mindfulness and Awareness for The Practice of Meditation in The Tipitaka

Abstract

This research paper aims at analyzing the relationship between mindfulness (Sati) and awareness (Sampajañña) for meditation practice found in Tipitaka, focusing on 3 objectives: 1) to study the meaning and importance of mindfulness and awareness in Tipitaka; 2) to study meditation in Tipitaka, and 3) to analyze the relationship. It was documentary research, dealing with the content analysis of the relationship between mindfulness and awareness for meditation practice. The researcher divided its scope into two parts, namely document scope analyzing documents used here and content scope to determine various topics by studying the data from Tipitaka, its commentaries, sub-commentaries, and other related scriptures. Sati and Sampajañña refer to a consistent remembrance and full awareness, while thinking, speaking, and acting knowing what should and should not to do without the overwhelming by ignorance, obsession. This mindfulness and awareness are included in Cetasika rising together with the consciousness, having the same mental objects, and relying on the mind to rise. For meditation training, both mindfulness and awareness will rise together, but while meditator contemplate on calamity meditation, mindfulness plays as domain in such state, serving as helper supporter for the firm one-pointedness of the mind and a base for raising the mind up to Vipassana level. Awareness (Wisdom) serves the observing on the true nature of name and forms appearing in the present moment.