tiltbillings wrote:acinteyyo wrote:Your suggestion tilt, to sit still for an hour, does not enable someone to see "sabbe sankhara dukkha" but only "dukkha" IMHO. This may be helpful to see this or that being dukkha but I don't think it enables someone to see that all sankhara are dukkha.
How do you see "all"? Sitting still for an hour, mindfully with concentration, may certainly give one experience to some:
the body and touch, the mind and mental phenomena. It is a start.
Guess I may missed the point you made. Maybe we both mean the same thing, I called it "citta-bhāvanā" you called it "sit still for an hour, mindfully with concentration", probably not really that much difference...
Another thing with respect to sankhara from the standpoint of the khandhas, which should be put into consideration:
MN109 wrote:Whatever fabrications are past, future, or present; internal or external; blatant or subtle; common or sublime; far or near: those are called the aggregate of fabrication. (...) This is the extent to which the term 'aggregate' applies to the aggregates."
particularly noteworthy is "internal or external", the pali passage is
MN109 wrote:ye keci saṅkhārā atītānāgatapaccuppannā ajjhattaṃ vā bahiddhā vā, oḷārikā vā sukhumā vā, hīnā vā paṇītā vā, ye dūre santike vā ayaṃ saṅkhārakkhandho.
"ajjhattaṃ vā bahiddhā", the pali-dictionary I use says:
ajjhattaṃ: inwardly. (adv.), Relating to the individual, within the individual, internally, subjectively
bahiddhā: outside; outer. (ind.)
A german translation uses the term "eigen oder fremd" (own or foreign). What I'm trying to say is that the aggregate of fabrication doesn't only consist of "my fabrications" but of "your fabrications", too. Same thing applies for the four other aggregates.
best wishes, acinteyyo