How precepts and understanding support environmental balance

A review of the Satipatthana as a holistic practice

Effort is the engagement of heart with a topic. In satipatthana, the engagement is with body as an intelligent entity. When heart meets the ‘spinal sense’ there is resolve and stability.

Through consciousness, boundaries form between subject and object; thus, me and the world. Through the stress of that, the me closes into a bag. Defense and acquisition strategies. Heart (citta) is not consciousness and can turn away from creating the same me bag. This is through regulating inner-outer sensitivities to a harmonious whole.

Touch sense establishes relationship and presence within the shared field. When this is safe, citta can unfold, and we re-form.