Just find a posture where you're comfortable but not so comfortable that you fall asleep.

Why are the four ​satipaṭṭhānas referred to as frames of reference?

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This is my favourite line in the book;

...to suggest that mindfulness just involves nonjudgmental awareness proves to be nonsensical under basic scrutiny.

Thank you for explaining what minfulness isn't

If it's an attachment then it will lead suffering and will need to be let go of at some stage

It feels like the closest to what The Buddha taught

Notice anything that pulls you away from the breath and bring your attention back to the breath. Investigation of the five aggregates is an advanced practice which requires a deep state of meditation, something you're unlikely to be able to achieve when you're starting out.

Important things happen in the present. Stay present so you're aware when they arise so you can study them and understand how they cause suffering.

Most food is covered in micro-organisms. For example an apple is not sterile.

Samana_Johann wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:34 am Aside of an Arahat all are considered to be mental ill.

Yes people who don't have a mental illness and don't consider themselves to be mentally ill are actually mentally ill. The mental illness of ignorance.

The result of the abandoning the underlying tendency to lust for pleasant feelings and the abandoning the underlying tendency to aversion for unpleasant feelings and the underlying tendency to ignorance in regard to neither-painful-nor-pleasant feelings is true knowledge. Well if lust for example a...

sunnat wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 10:08 pm when you are meditating, it is when you are continuously maintaining non-judging awareness (of the continual change of all composed things) that you are progressing on the path.

How does non-judging awareness develop wisdom? Without wisdom you can't progress very far.

coconut wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 9:44 am The sentient being affected by deeds/karma. The form they take is irrelevant.

Give it a go!

coconut wrote: ↑Sat Jan 02, 2021 4:18 pm lol, this is the most absurd form of no-self I've ever seen on this forum.

It may sound absurd, but humans are mostly water with a few other elements. So where is the self in that?

How can words harm a bag of water?

Only speak if it is useful