Buddhist Meditation: Mindfulness, Concentration, and Detachment

To understand the Buddhist meditation techniques, you have to go through the Buddhist phenomena. In Buddha’s immense discourse, the ‘Sutta’ and ‘Maha-Satipatthana’, it is very clearly written about the practice of mindfulness. It also discloses the objects and the way of achieving the mindfulness. It reveals the order of cultivating the attentiveness to every movement of everybody part, and ever-changing status of human mind to know the real nature about them. Many thinkers have a false concept of ‘self’ about the Buddhist physical and mental phenomena, but we should accept them as realities of movements of the physical human body, which is a part of four elements according to ‘mahabhutas’. A man is judged through his deeds as the tree is recognized from its fruit. Particularly, this psychology is a basic concept of Buddhist meditations. They do not care of man by his name or tribe. According to the ‘Vipaka’ and ‘Kamma’, the action of a man is his identity. These actions consist of his behavior in his life structure and relations with the community members. The attentiveness of mind and body bring a positive reaction against the theory of self. It also helps in craving out the exte al objects, so if there is no self exist in mind then the craving of any object is omitted itself. However, it takes long time to build a character of that mindfulness, but with the help of proper concentration one can bear better results in his life. Through the establishment of better attitude of mind, you can deal the daily state of affairs better than those who are not concentrating on mindfulness. Detachments and Concentrations are the main objects of the Buddhist meditations. Objectivity and Detachment are precious tools for clear judgment; the man can better sum up in any present situation without preconception, and take action in the present situation with maturity and courage. Another gift bestowed by the Buddhist meditation is concentration; ability of focusing the brain to a steady and fixed position on single object, known as ‘ekaggat’ in Buddhism, it leads to a successful community life and physical calmness. Although it is very tough to tame the mind; it restlessly roams on different objects same like the untamed horse or wind, but if you gain total control on it, you might be the owner of most powerful device of the universe. When we have the self in our mind, it means we have fear in minds and the feared person cannot survive in the current challenging conditions. If you do not have self in mind, it means you are not afraid of misfortune or death. It happens only through proper meditation and attentive attitude of mind. You will not be affected by any blame or any praise and remain calm alike in the failure or the success in life. You will fear only by the harm of meritorious actions, when you know that nothing can harm you except yourself, and as you will increase detachment, you will become less accountable to these demeritorious deeds. When your mind will be purified with the meditation then you will be horrified with the wrong deeds and on the other hand will be pleased to give pleasure to the others.