Awareness in Buddhist Meditation

Mindfulness as
Recollection
However, before dealing with awareness and its application to the
bodily functions and the activities of the mind in sensations, in
thought and mental states, we have to speak of a group of ten applications
in the Workshop (kammaṭṭhāna) of the mind, which are
rather the functions of recollection (anussati), which is a kind of
memory (Sanskrit: smṛti) or a flash-back only remotely connected
with awareness in actuality.
This group of recollections is part of a total of forty methods
of concentration, as they are found together in the Visuddhimagga
and disjunctively in several of the older Suttas. They are recollections,
for they throw the mind back on a specially selected object
for concentration.
The ten are 4 :
1.) Recollection of the Buddha and his nine good qualities
(Buddhānussati)
2.) Recollection of the teaching of the Buddha and the good qualities
thereof (Dhammānussati)
4 D.III, 250; A. III, 284)
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