AWARENESS OF OBJECTS OF MIND: DHARMAS IN THE DHARMAS

Breathing in, aware of the impermanent nature of all dharmas.
Breathing out, aware of the impermanent nature of all dharmas.

Breathing in, aware of the disappearance of clinging.
Breathing out, aware of the disappearance of clinging

Breathing in, observing cessation.
Breathing out, observing cessation.

Breathing in, observing letting go.
Breathing out, observing letting go.

Mindfulness of Dharma

The word “dharma” is another Sanskrit word that is as difficult to define as the word “yoga.” It can simply be described as ”natural law” or “the way things are.”

This foundation of mindfulness is sometimes called “mindfulness of mental objects.” With this teaching, we learn that everything around us exists for us as mental objects; manifestations of reality. They are what they are because that’s how we recognise them. Mindfulness of Dharma is to practice awareness of the inter-existence of all things, and awareness that they are temporary, without self-essence, and conditioned by everything else.

Mind is consciousness, feeling, and mental formations (such as aversion and attachment). If we are feeling, we are feeling something, and this something is the object of mind. All physiological phenomena, all psychological phenomena,, and all physical phenomena, are objects of mind. works with the more subtle aspects of experience of impermanence, nonself, cessation, and letting go.