How can I practice mindfulness meditation with sound, not breathing?
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I listen to the suttas. Listening to the suttas fulfills many meditation requirements.
the mendicant thinks about and considers the teaching in their heart, examining it with the mind as they learned and memorized it. Or a meditation subject as a basis of immersion is properly grasped, attended, borne in mind, and comprehended with wisdom. --dn33/en/sujato
You can choose a sutta to listen to using SuttaCentral Voice Assistant, which offers almost 4000 suttas available in Pali and/or English. The suttas can also be downloaded for offline listening.
If you are interested in memorizing a sutta, you can choose to walk meditation on a fixed route. This integrates your memory of the sutta with a physical place and will allow you to "walk the sutta" in your mind at any time you choose.
Having counted my breaths during meditation for over a decade, I now prefer to listen to suttas during walking meditation. I currently listen to DN33. It is two hours long. Choose a sutta that suits your interest. They are all instructions of the Buddha.
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I'd skip designing a sound-based approach and go with shikantaza or Silent Illumination. You can learn these at Soto Zen or Chan practices centers or from teachers. They are types of zazen and should fit your needs. The advantage of going with an already existent meditation is the support and having others for further questions, guidance etc.
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In Buddhism, "right mindfulness" means " to remember to keep" the mind free from attachment, craving & other unwholesome states.
In Buddhism, "right mindfulness" does not mean "focusing on breathing".
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Sound is a valid object of mindfulness, one of the six sense objects, part of the fourth foundation of mindfulness:
"He understands the ear, he understands sounds and he understands the fetter that arises dependent on both; and he also understands how there comes to be the arising of the unarisen fetter, and how there comes to be the abandoning of the arisen fetter, and how there comes to be the future non-arising of the abandoned fetter." (MN 10, Bodhi trans.)
The point here is to observe sounds as something that gives rise to potential fetters (liking, disliking, conceit, possessiveness, etc.). Through mindfulness, one understands sound as merely sound, as impermanent, unsatisfying, non-self, and one relinquishes craving in regards to sound.
In my tradition, we remind ourselves "hearing, hearing..." as a means of cultivating mindfulness.
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