four frame of reference

upekka

what do you know about four kind of mindfulness?

pegembara

1. Body contemplation - understanding its nature
2. Contemplating feeling - how it arises
3. Contemplating mind - freed from desire, aversion, confusion, drowsiness, restlessness or doubt
4. Contemplating the teachings - 4NT, 3 characteristics, self enquiry, factors of enlightenment

Buddhadragon

Four Foundations of Mindfulness or Sattipathana Sutta.

The Buddha presented the Mahasatipatthana Sutta in the following terms:

"Bikkhus, this is the direct path for the purification of all beings, for the overcoming of sorrow & lamentation, for the elimination of dukkha & grief, for the attainment of the right method, & for the realization of Nibbana — namely, the four frames of reference."

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.22.0.than.html

DairyLama

I think it is about paying close attention to various aspects of experience, and gradually developing insight into the nature of that experience. The four frames of reference or foundations of mindfulness are a useful framework.
I work mostly with the sense bases, which is one of the methods of investigation in the fourth frame.

Jeroen

Four foundations of mindfulness describes it quite well, these are areas where one can bring awareness to develop mindfulness of certain things. Developing mindfulness to such an extent that one is mindful simultaneously of several different areas is quite challenging.

http://www.arrowriver.ca/dhamma/founMind.html

namarupa

With the cessation of clinging comes the cessation of the entire mass of suffering.

Mindfulness of body, feelings, mind, and mental qualities, focusing on those objects "in and of themselves", separating the "self" from those things, can lead to noticing impermanence, stress, and anatta in those things.

Noticing the three characteristics, can lead to dispassion and disenchantment, from dispassion to release (letting go), from release to cessation, and from cessation to freedom.

Dispassion and disenchantment (nibbida) is not easily reached, but keeping virtues, meditation, and clear knowledge and vission will help lead the way.