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2018-08-22 Originazione dipendente / Dependent origination 59:16
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Insegnamenti di buddismo Theravada. 19. 6. 2018 Ritiro di Satipatthana Vipassana a Pian dei Ciliegi, Satipatthana Vipassana Meditation retreat in Pian dei Ciliegi
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi

2018-08-05 12 guided meditation: mindfulness of the body in terms of its anatomical parts 29:03
Jill Shepherd
Guided meditation beginning with a reading from the Satipatthana Sutta on the anatomical parts of the body, followed by reciting of the 32 parts then body scans knowing the body in terms of its skin, flesh, and bones
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-07-21 Morning Instructions On The Fourth Satipatthana 59:59
Chris Cullen
Contemplation of Dhammas (especially hinderances and awakening factor)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-09 Satipatthana - Four Establishments Of Mindfulness 58:15
Akincano Marc Weber
Satipatthana as a map of experience and practical orientation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-06-28 Instructions de méditation 31:36
Sayadaw U Jagara
Pratique de satipatthana au moyen du corps, des sentations, de l’esprit et des objets de l’esprit.
L’Association de méditation Parami :  Vipassana : d’hier à aujourd’hui

2018-05-10 "Clear Comprehension Part 2" 59:30
James Baraz
In the Satipatthana Sutta (MN#10), the Buddha's discourse on mindfulness, the Buddha instructs us to contemplate mindfully, ardent and clearly comprehending each of the four foundations. "Clear comprehension" also translated as "clearly knowing" includes four areas of context for our mindfulness practice. In Part 1 we explored the first two elements of Clear Comprehension: "Clear Comprehension of Purpose" and "Clear Comprehension of Suitability of Action". In this talk we discuss the second two aspects: "Clear Comprehension in the Domain of Meditation" and "Clear Comprehension of Reality". With metta, James
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-04-19 "Clear Comprehension Part 1" 51:40
James Baraz
In the Satipatthana Sutta (MN#10), the Buddha's discourse on mindfulness, the Buddha instruct's us to contemplate mindfully, ardent and clearly comprehending each of the four foundations. "Clear comprehension" also translated as "clearly knowing" includes four areas of context for our mindfulness practice. In this talk the first two aspects of Clear Comprehension are explored: "Clear Comprehension of Purpose" and "Clear Comprehension of Suitability of Action."
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-01-22 Satipatthana Sutta 38:28
Greg Scharf
This talk starts with a recording of a chant of the Satipatthana Sutta, or "Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness," followed by a discussion of the meaning of the sutta.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2017-11-04 Opening To The Pali Chanting Of The Satipatthana Sutta 33:25
Brian Lesage
This talk introduces the practice of opening to and meditating upon the chanting of the Satipatthana Sutta, the discourse on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. It utilizes the chanting of Ven. Dr. Omalpe Sobhita Thero.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2017-10-15 Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 59:41
Sally Armstrong
The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (usually translated as the Foundations of Mindfulness) offers a complete description of the practice of mindfulness, beginning with the direct awareness of the breath and the body, progressing through mindfulness of vedana or feeling tone, to the more subtle object of the Third Foundation, mindfulness of mind states. The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness represents the culmination of this series of practices, and can be seen as a direct pointing, again and again, to the possibility of freedom through direct awareness of where we get caught, and how to turn the mind towards liberation. This talk is an overview of the practices of the Fourth Foundation, which can be seen as both the last in the sequence of practices, and as a progression in itself. It also covers how the Fourth Foundation can be skillfully interwoven into our practice of the other foundations.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-09-29 20 Instructions: Reflections on the Satipatthana Sutta refrain 18:04
Greg Scharf
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-17 The First Foundation of Mindfulness 61:11
Sally Armstrong
In the Satipatthana Sutta on the foundations of mindfulness, the first area of practice is the body. The Buddha gives us many different practices and ways to investigate the body. This talk explores these practices, beginning with the breath, but going on to other practices that we don't often teach, such as the four elements, the 32 parts of the body, and corpse contemplations. Each of these practices can be a powerful doorway to wise seeing and freedom. This talk is the first of a series of four on each foundation of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-08-11 Turning to Dust: Death Contemplations 26:36
Ayya Medhanandi
The nine-cemetary contemplations presented in the Satipatthana Sutta work with elemental perspectives on the parts of the body by simulating their condition after death.  The clarity of mind realized in these special practices sheds light on how valuable death contemplations are for a wholesome and happy life.  Not only does the mind gain immense lucidity and peace, but we are able to access and develop special qualities of mental composure, joy and discernment.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2017-06-26 Equanimity In Satipatthana Meditation 66:27
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Definition, occurrence and contributing factors of equanimity.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-21 Perception in the Context of Satipatthana. 1:13:41
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Definition, development and applications of perception.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-05 Guided meditation on the insight dimension of Satipatthana - 4 Foundations of Mindfulness (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 38:28
Mark Coleman
Monday Night Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-06-01 Opening Talk 43:37
Sayadaw Vivekananda
As global relatives, samsara relatives and dhamma relatives - we are inspired by the Candana Sutta and the Satipatthana Sutta.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-05-21 Le refrain du Satipatthana Sutta, Retraite à Montréal 56:32
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Cette vie qui nous échappe

2017-04-27 Mindfulness and the Four Noble Truths 41:00
Kim Allen
The four Satipatthanas can be mapped onto the four Noble Truths
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-02-18 Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 58:58
Sally Armstrong
The Fourth Foundation in the Satipatthana Sutta provides a profound map for our vipassana practice, pointing again and again to how to relate wisely to all experiences.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long Retreat

2017-01-09 Re-contextualising Mindfulness 54:32
Akincano Marc Weber
Sati in Buddhist Psychology, sati in Mind-development, Images of sati. Establishing the Fourfold Mindfulness: (satipaṭṭhāna) as map and as four channels of experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2016-11-29 Relational Fields and Satipatthana 52:07
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindfulness of mind is the ability to hold the range of mind states in the field of mind so that dispassionate presence is realized. This ‘holding’ is not grasping any phenomenon as a real thing, more relating to it as a potential citta characteristic.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-10-20 The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 59:51
Sally Armstrong
The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (usually translated as the Foundations of Mindfulness) offers a complete description of the practice of mindfulness, beginning with the direct awareness of the breath and the body, progressing through mindfulness of vedana or feeling tone, to the more subtle object of the Third Foundation, mindfulness of mind states. The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness represents the culmination of this series of practices, and can be seen as a direct pointing, again and again, to the possibility of freedom through direct awareness of where we get caught, and how to turn the mind towards liberation. This talk is an overview of the practices of the Fourth Foundation, which can be seen as both the last in the sequence of practices, and as a progression in itself. It also covers how the Fourth Foundation can be skillfully interwoven into our practice of the other foundations.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 1

2016-06-26 Maha-Satipatthana Sutta Part 10 33:53
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante G goes over the MahaSatiPatthana Sutta: Four Foundations of Mindfulness at the 2016 monastic retreat.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-06-25 Maha-Satipatthana Sutta Part 9 48:42
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante G goes over the MahaSatiPatthana Sutta: Four Foundations of Mindfulness at the 2016 monastic retreat.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-06-25 Maha-Satipatthana Sutta Part 8 26:03
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante G goes over the MahaSatiPatthana Sutta: Four Foundations of Mindfulness at the 2016 monastic retreat.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-06-24 Maha-Satipatthana Sutta Part 7 53:50
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante G goes over the MahaSatiPatthana Sutta: Four Foundations of Mindfulness at the 2016 monastic retreat.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-06-22 Maha-Satipatthana Sutta Part 6 37:25
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante G goes over the MahaSatiPatthana Sutta: Four Foundations of Mindfulness at the 2016 monastic retreat.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-06-16 Maha-Satipatthana Sutta Part 5 64:12
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante G goes over the MahaSatiPatthana Sutta: Four Foundations of Mindfulness at the 2016 monastic retreat.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-06-12 Maha-Satipatthana Sutta Part 4 33:48
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante G goes over the MahaSatiPatthana Sutta: Four Foundations of Mindfulness at the 2016 monastic retreat.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-06-12 Maha-Satipatthana Sutta Part 3 55:56
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante G goes over the MahaSatiPatthana Sutta: Four Foundations of Mindfulness at the 2016 monastic retreat.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-06-07 Maha-Satipatthana Sutta Part 2 49:42
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante G goes over the MahaSatiPatthana Sutta: Four Foundations of Mindfulness at the 2016 monastic retreat.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-06-07 Maha-Satipatthana Sutta 59:49
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhante G goes over the MahaSatiPatthana Sutta: Four Foundations of Mindfulness at the 2016 monastic retreat.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2016-06-06 More on the contemplation of the body 60:00
Bhante Khippapanno
What is the meaning of effort, clear comprehension, and mindfulness in the introduction of the Maha Satipatthana Sutta? Emphasis on how to contemplate he air element, vibration, expansion, Motion, movements
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-05-30 The four Satipatthanas and mindfulness of the body 52:59
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-04-08 Hindrances - 4th Satipaṭṭhāna 43:37
Akincano Marc Weber
Meeting the meditators humanity
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Satipaṭṭhāna: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-04-06 Vedanā – neither sensation nor feeling. Hedonic tone in the Satipaṭṭhāna scheme 35:52
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Satipaṭṭhāna: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-03-29 Mindfulness Internally: Insight and Freedom 39:56
Jenny Wilks
This is the first talk of a two-part talk titled "Mindfulness, Insight, and Compassion." According to Jenny Wilkes, "mindfulness" is becoming such a commonly used term that its depth and liberating potential may be underestimated or misunderstood. The Buddha's teaching on establishing mindfulness (the Satipatthana Sutta) invites us to cultivate mindfulness both "internally" i.e., a deep awareness of our inner experience in order to cultivate liberating insight; and "externally" i.e., an open-hearted awareness of others in order to cultivate an ethical and compassionate response. The two-part talk explores how together these can support our mindfulness practice so that it becomes, as the Buddha described, a "direct path to awakening."
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2016-03-03 Inquiry into the Subtle Structure of the Satipatthana 57:55
Phillip Moffitt
When examined closely through direct experience the beautiful blueprint of the Satipatthana is revealed in subtlety and hidden dimensions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-02-28 Satipatthana and Mindfulness 54:13
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2015-11-06 The 4 Satipatthanas - Our Vehicle For Crossing the Flood 43:30
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-19 The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 57:05
Sally Armstrong
The Satipatthana Sutta (usually translated as the Foundations of Mindfulness) offers a complete description of the practice of mindfulness, beginning with the direct awareness of the breath and the body, progressing through mindfulness of vedana or feeling tone, to the more subtle object of the Third Foundation, mindfulness of mind states. The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness represents the culmination of this series of practices, and can be seen as a direct pointing, again and again, to the possibility of freedom through direct awareness of where we get caught, and how to turn the mind towards liberation. This talk is an overview of the practices of the Fourth Foundation, which can be seen as both the last in the sequence of practices, and as a progression in itself. It also covers how the Fourth Foundation can be skillfully interwoven into our practice of the other foundations.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-28 Satipatthana Series - The first foundation of mindfulness: the body 59:36
Sally Armstrong
In the Satipatthana sutta on the foundations of mindfulness, the first area of practice is the body. The Buddha gives us many different practices and ways to investigate the body. This talk explores these practices, beginning with the breath, but going on to other practices that we don't often teach, such as the four elements, the 32 parts of the body, and corpse contemplations. Each of these practices can be a powerful doorway to wise seeing and freedom. This talk is the first of a series of four on each foundation of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-17 Working with Emotions in the Body 53:54
Christiane Wolf
Hands-on description on working with anxiety, a physician's take on the 32 parts of the body practice, all 4 satipatthanas grow from here.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom in the Body

2015-09-08 The fourth satipatthana 69:05
Patrick Kearney
Tonight we explore the fourth satipaṭṭhāna, that of tracking dharma or dharmas (dhammānupassanā). Tracking dharma (singular) involves learning the conceptual framework that gives meaning to the experiences we undergo. We learn to read our experience. When experience means something, then it can transform our life. Tracking the dharmas (plural) entails learning to perceive our experienced world as no more than a flow of phenomena, that arise and cease dependent on conditions. This represents the maturity of insight into not-self (anattā).
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-07 The three satipatthanas 1:18:37
Patrick Kearney
We survey the first three of the four satipaṭṭhānas, here translated as “foundations of mindfulness” or “domains of mindfulness” – the places where we station our mindfulness. These are body (kāya), feeling (vedanā) and heart/mind (citta). We see these domains represent a linear progression from less to greater ethical sensitivity; and we also see how feeling holds the practice together.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-05 The insight chorus - Part 1 - Impermanence & emptiness 67:17
Patrick Kearney
We look at the first three sentences of the chorus of Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, where the Buddha explains the arising of insight (vipassanā). We examine “tracking body as body internally and externally,” where the assumed boundary between self and other begins to dissolve. Then we look at how the practitioner opens into the perception of impermanence – “tracking the nature of arising and ceasing as body.” Finally, we examine the entry into emptiness, where the practitioner is mindful that “body is,” for understanding (ñāṇa) and continuous mindfulness (paṭisati).
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-02 Tracking experience 1:11:54
Patrick Kearney
We examine the central activity of satipaṭṭhāna, that of anupassanā, or “tracking” experience over time. We do this by unpacking the sentence, “Here a bhikkhu, surrendering longing and sorrow for the world, lives tracking body as body … feeling as feeling … heart/mind as heart/mind … phenomena as phenomena, ardent, clearly understanding and mindful.”
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-02 Tracking the thought-stream 65:19
Patrick Kearney
A fundamental principle of satipaṭṭhāna practice is to take what distracts us, what prevents us from practising, and make it our meditation object. Here we look at using the thought-stream as meditation object. We learn how to attend to the process of thinking rather than get caught up in the contents of our thoughts.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-31 Mindfulness of breathing 1:13:47
Patrick Kearney
We look at the section in Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta where the Buddha speaks of mindfulness of breathing (ānāpāna-sati). We look at the development of the practice from natural awareness to mindfulness to understanding to training to sensing to calming, and we see how the nature of breathing itself transforms as our relationship to it develops.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

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