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fixed wikipedia's wrong definition of maraṇa-s-sati 💀


correct definition:

maraṇa-s-sati 💀 = death-remembering

‘appamattā viharissāma, tikkhaṃ maraṇassatiṃ bhāvessāma āsavānaṃ khayāyā’ti. (AN 6.19)
1. Never forget, remembering to assiduously practice ☸Dharma for arahantship every moment, giving it everything you got, for the time it takes for one breath, or the time it takes to eat one mouthful of food. If you get sidetracked or forget to be assiduous (ap-pamāda), the Buddha calls that negligence (pamāda). (AN 6.19).
2. Remembering, not forgetting that fatal accidents can strike at any moment, so practice the ☸Dharma assiduously every moment. Doing this correctly, will activate the 7sb☀️ sequence producing virtuous-mirth (mudita/pamojja) and rapture (pīti). (AN 6.20).

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I made this fix on wikipedia: Probably just a matter of time before the collective 'wisdom' of the internet alter it into something wrong again. But here's proof I made the attempt to correct their original error:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara%E1%B9%87asati



In the Pali Canon

There are only two suttas (and 2 other ones slightly expanded) that explicitly explain the term maraṇa-s-sati (death-remembering). ‘appamattā viharissāma, tikkhaṃ maraṇassatiṃ bhāvessāma āsavānaṃ khayāyā’ti. (AN 6.19) 1. Never forget, remembering to assiduously practice Dharma for arahantship every moment, giving it everything you got, for the time it takes for one breath, or the time it takes to eat one mouthful of food. If you get sidetracked or forget to be assiduous (ap-pamāda), the Buddha calls that negligence (pamāda). (AN 6.19). 2. Remembering, not forgetting that fatal accidents can strike at any moment, so practice the Dharma assiduously every moment. Doing this correctly, will activate the 7 factors of awakening sequence, producing virtuous-mirth (mudita/pamojja) and rapture (pīti). (AN 6.20).

A common misunderstanding seems to be that the 9 stages of corpse contemplation is maranasati. It is not. Corpse contemplation (described in AN 6.29 and MN 10) is for the purpose of realizing impermanence and not self and lack of persisting identity in our body (Asmi-māna-samugghātāya).  



Second attempt to fix that wikipedia definition


They removed my wikipedia fix above, claiming my edit was original research, and not something I could corroborate from published sources. So I tried again 5/22/2020:

According to first maraṇa-s-sati sutta (AN 6.19), when the Buddha asks 6 monks how they practice death-remembering (maraṇa-s-sati), they give answers with successfully shorter time spans, with the same basic formula: "If I would only have one more day and night to live, I’d focus on the Buddha’s instructions and I could really achieve a lot." The last two monks answer with a time span of the time it takes to chew one mouthful of food, and the last monk says, "in the time it takes to breathe in one breath, ... I can achieve a lot." The sutta ends with the surprising admonishment from the Buddha that the first 4 monks are negligent (pamada), and only the last 2 monks are diligent (appamada). The Buddha then gives the following injunction, which serves as the basic definition of marana-sati: 

So you should train like this:

‘appamattā viharissāma, tikkhaṃ maraṇassatiṃ bhāvessāma āsavānaṃ khayāyā’ti. ‘We will live diligently. We will keenly develop rememberfulness of death for the ending of defilements.’  


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