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Last week began looking at the refrain in the Satybitana Suta that comes after each of the specific meditation instructions.

The refrain arises 13 different times in the suta.

And the first part of this is the teaching we talked about which is looking at each of the four mindful abidings, that is the mindful abiding of the body of feelings of mind and

of damais, internally, looking at them externally, and both internally and externally.

Explored a little bit how practicing in this way helps keep our awareness centered and balanced,

and also opens us to the transforming wisdom of emptiness.

This evening go into a little bit

the second part of the refrain,

which tells us to abide contemplating the nature of arising, the nature of

passing away and the nature of both arising and passing away of each object of

awareness.

Contemplate the arising, the passing away, and both the arising and the passing away.

A Lady Saeedow, who is one of the great Burmese masters of the turn of the last century. He was a great meditative master as well

as a great scholar of Buddhism. He said that not seeing the arising and passing

away of phenomena is ignorance. While seeing all phenomena is impermanent is the doorway to all the stages of insight

to the different stages of awakening.

There's something very important here.

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