The Role of Mindfulness in the Process of Awakening Development

Abstract

This academic paper aims to find an answer to the question of how the role of mindfulness can lead to the process of awakening development. The study findings have showed that the humans are naturally the rational beings, unlike animals they have new feeling of consciousness and comfort, free from oppression, with extreme happiness and a great love for fellow human beings and things. A new consciousness has arisen through human accession of being the whole world oneness that is the one with the nature related to the mindfulness, meaning that the awakening or the heedfulness (Appamãda). Whenever we live with the mentally formational world, we cannot touch the reality of nature; on the contrary, when we are mindful of the present, the state of peaceful mind can truly touch the nature or attain the truth. This is ‘Mindfulness’ (Sati). It would result in the wisdom cultivation that is naturally attained by the calming of mind that leads to the ultimate truth; but it is unable for the chaotic mind. The mind consisting of mindfulness and concentration is the peaceful one approaching the truth; the peaceful mind is the way to reach the ultimate truth. The mindfulness is the tool leading to the awakening and a new consciousness, humans could find out by their own experiences that the mindfulness brings the exquisite happiness like never seen before, namely having good health, reducing stress, enhancing brain, intelligence and relationship. The role of mindfulness is therefore to help humans to have the awakening and to know that ‘ten thousand Buddhas’ are in the human heart.