Awareness in Buddhist Meditation

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although it is well-proclaimed (svākhāto Bhagavatā-dhammo). It is
appealing to the intellect rather than to the emotional feelings of
one’s inner desires. It speaks for itself and is directly observable
(sandiṭṭhiko) without revelation, without concession through miracles,
without dependence on promises. It is not through grace or
through fear, or in desire for results that one accepts his teaching,
but because it is self-evident, when the obstacles to viewing are
cleared away, obstacles of faith, tradition, attachment to customs,
rituals, education, environment. Only when the mind is totally free,
it can see the truth as it is. And this vision is not to be cultivated:
but it can be seen immediately (akāliko) without the preparation of
prayers and sacrifices, without the accumulation of virtue, without
the expectation of reward or fear of punishment. It is timeless in
the sense that there can be no striving to become, for the truth is
always here and now.
Thus it is as an open invitation: come and see (ehipassiko) without
prejudice, without desire, without expectation, in readiness to
receive whatever comes without distortion, without rejection, without
selection. When the false is seen as false, there is the truth
self-revealed. In that openness there is an immediate leading-on
(opanayiko), not with a goal in view, not with striving for a purpose,
not with a desire for attainment, but a leading-on which is a
leading-out, away from the night-mare of becoming, from the dream
of being, from the delusion of existence which is resistance. No morebecoming
(bhava-nirodha) in no-more conflict (dukkha). Such is the
deliverance into which the teaching of the Buddha leads on, clearly
to be seen by everyone, as long as he is prepared to see without distortion,
with intelligent awareness (paccattaṁ veditabbo vinnññūhi).
Recollection of the Brotherhood
What does the brotherhood stand for? This brotherhood of the
disciples of the Buddha (bhagavato sāvaka-saṅgho) is well-behaved