Kammaṭṭhāna

[Cittasanto]

Can anyone tell me what it is?
where its practice derives from?
everything really!
I have my suspicions and if I am correct it would explain something which happened a while ago!

[Individual]

Can anyone tell me what it is?
where its practice derives from?
everything really!
I have my suspicions and if I am correct it would explain something which happened a while ago!

It's the forty objects of meditation from the Visuddhimagga, a commentary written by Buddhaghosa. The list is derived from the meditation practices taught by the Buddha. I don't think it's an all-encompassing list, but it's certainly a very nice one.

Wikipedia's article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kammatthana

[cooran]

Hello Manapa, all,

Mahasi Sayadaw taught and explained this technique:

http://www.dhammaweb.net/mahasi/book/Ma ... tation.pdf

metta
Chris

[Element]

I may be corrected but I have heard kammatthana means 'object of work'.

Kamma here means 'work' such as in the word 'kammaniyo', which means 'ready for work' or 'active'.

Buddha said one quality of samadhi is it is active or pliant. It is sensitive and flexible for the work of introspection or vipassana.

So evaṃ samāhite citte parisuddhe pariyodāte anaṅgaṇe vigatūpakkilese mudubhūte kammaniye ṭhite āneñjappatte āsavānaṃ khayañāṇāya cittaṃ abhininnāmesiṃ.

When the mind was thus concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, rid of defilement, pliant, malleable, steady & attained to imperturbability, I directed it to the knowledge of the ending of the mental fermentations.

[bodom]

I may be corrected but I have heard kammatthana means 'object of work'.

Kamma here means 'work' such as in the word 'kammaniyo', which means 'ready for work' or 'active'.

Buddha said one quality of samadhi is it is active or pliant. It is sensitive and flexible for the work of introspection or vipassana.

So evaṃ samāhite citte parisuddhe pariyodāte anaṅgaṇe vigatūpakkilese mudubhūte kammaniye ṭhite āneñjappatte āsavānaṃ khayañāṇāya cittaṃ abhininnāmesiṃ.

When the mind was thus concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, rid of defilement, pliant, malleable, steady & attained to imperturbability, I directed it to the knowledge of the ending of the mental fermentations.

In Buddhism, kammaṭṭhāna is a Pali word (Sanskrit: karmasthana) which literally means the place of work. Figuratively it means the place within the mind where one goes in order to work on spiritual development. More concretely, it refers to the forty canonical objects of meditation (samatha kammaṭṭhāna), listed in the third chapter of the Visuddhimagga.[1]

Buddhaghosa & Nanamoli (1999), p. 90.

[Element]

In Buddhism, kammaṭṭhāna is a Pali word (Sanskrit: karmasthana) which literally means the place of work. Figuratively it means the place within the mind where one goes in order to work on spiritual development.

Thank you.

[bodom]

Found this:

http://www.what-buddha-taught.net/Books ... tthana.htm

Worth a look.