The sequential development of the factors of enlightenment beginning with mindfulness, leading to the arousing factors, then to the pacifying factors. Keeping a special eye on mindfulness, energy, and concentration to keep the factors balanced.
We often hear about and experience the suffering caused by greed and aversion, yet delusion, the third of the kilesas, or torments of mind, is in some ways a more fundamental cause of suffering because if we weren’t deluded, we wouldn’t believe that by grasping or pushing away we could avoid suffering. The challenge with delusion is its very definition is that we do
Mahasi Sayadaw taught this style of meditation in which any object that arises in our experience can be the momentary focus of mindfulness, including breath, sensations, sounds, emotions, thoughts, and so on.
