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Sati-sampaja¤¤a is not something that you learn through acquiring it, but rather it’s awakening, it’s learning to trust this awakening, paying attention to life. It’s not that you can acquire sati-sampaja¤¤a just through studying about it, or throughn trying to pursue it by will alone, it’s an immanent act of trust in the unknown, because you can’t get hold of it. People like to ask, “define it for me, describe it to me, tell me if I have it,” that kind of thing. Nobody can tell you, “Well, I think you have it, you look like you’re mindful right now”.
We’ve come from the world of ideas rather than from realising the natural law. So in meditation it is a matter of recognising the way it is, the Dhamma or the natural law, the way things are — that sexual desire is like this, it’s not mine. The 46 Intuitive Awareness body is like this; it’s a sexual body so it’s going to have these energies. It has sexual organs, it’s made like this, this is the way it is, so it’s not personal. I didn’t create it. We begin to look at the most obvious things, the basics, the human body, in terms of the way it is rather than identifying with it personally.
We’re not making moral judgments, because we’re using satisampaja¤¤a. If you get caught up in your brain, your intellect, then it says, “Oh! You’re having lustful thoughts in the Shrine Room! You shouldn’t do that. You’re not a very good monk if you do things like that. ” We’re ver y attached to these judgments, this judgmental, critical function that we have, but sati-sampaja¤¤a includes that, it includes the judgement. It doesn’t judge judgement; it’s just noticing the kind of tyrannical, self-righteous superego that says, “You shouldn’t be the way you are.