About a year ago, after attending a meditation session in Kao Yai (with my teacher), I went to listen to a group of upasika practitioners who were discussing meditation and practice. One upasika that has been practicing for quite a while and has also been observing 8 precepts since I remember seeing her, was saying something along this line...
"..The key is to watch the mind right where the senses arise. Catch the sensations when they arise, and don't let them lead to anything. Keep being extremely mindful of these sensations, and keep on letting go of any follow-on mental factors, and never stop doing so (i.e. a 24/7 type thing). Whenever you fail to stop these sensations from leading to further mental factors, that is when you loose mindfulness...So keep mindfulness right at the mind, and watch the sensations as they arise. If any mental factors arise due to these sensations, stop them dead where they are..."
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