Noting pain in knee , back ,foot OR pain

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Noting pain in knee , back ,foot OR pain

Postby purple planet » Tue Oct 09, 2012 1:46 pm

I note by labeling - when i walk in meditation and "normal" walking i get pains should i note them all as "pain ,pain, pain" or "pain in knee, pain in knee , pain in knee " and "pain in foot ,pain in knee , pain in knee " ??

I have one thought in favor of noting things in each way :

As i see it to think about where is the pain is like not being aware of the pain but start being "inside" of it

on the other hand the pain definitely "moves" from place to place so when noting where it is its easier to see its "impermanence"
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Re: Noting pain in knee , back ,foot OR pain

Postby daverupa » Tue Oct 09, 2012 8:22 pm

The noting is like a quick blast of a jet engine in space; you use it for course correction, but you don't use it in a sustained fashion once you're on course. So, noting either way, or another way entirely, is useful if it reestablishes satisampajanna, and useless if it does not.
    "There is, headman, dhammasamādhi. If you were to obtain cittasamādhi in that, you might abandon this state of perplexity. And what, headman, is dhammasamādhi?

    [kammapatha & brahmavihara, & a method of arousing gladness]"
- SN 42.13 - Pāṭaliya


    "Others will misapprehend according to their individual views, hold on to them tenaciously and not easily discard them; we shall not misapprehend according to individual views nor hold on to them tenaciously, but shall discard them with ease — thus effacement can be done."
- MN 8 - Sallekha Sutta
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