2013-05-09 Satipatthana as Orientation 64:23
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2013-02-28 What Do We Really Mean By Mindfulness? 57:50
Jenny Wilks	Download Listen
An exploration of what the practice of mindfulness consists of, with reference to traditional and contemporary definitions and the Buddhas teaching in the Satipatthana Sutta, with the aim of clarifying what is really meant by this widely-used term and why it is a practice that can free us from suffering.
Gaia House :  Origins and Applications of Mindfulness (MBCT and MBSR Retreat)

2013-02-12 Maps of cultivating the mind: Satipaṭṭhāna and 4 distinct phases of meditation 56:58
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-10-24 Four Foundations of Mindfulness II- Mindfulness of the Body 60:23
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Using the Satipatthana Sutta as a guide, we explore the first three practices of mindfulness of the body. We point to the great traditional and contemporary importance of mindfulness of the body, and suggest a number of ways to practice in daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-09-07 Opening Talk for Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/SR Retreat 48:45
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Opening Talk for an Insight Meditation retreat that is particularly relevant to those teaching or training in mindfulness-based applications. This retreat explores the Four Foundations of Mindfulness as taught in the Satipatthana discourse given by the Buddha. This talk also includes John Teasdale and John Peacock
Gaia House :  Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/SR

2012-07-21 Mindfulness - Images of sati and the practice of Satipaṭṭhāna 64:02
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Sati as analogies in the sutras - 4 satipatthana as 4 channels and vantage points of attention and contemplative practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-07-19 The Four 60:46
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Reflections on the Four (noble truths/tasks) as the culmination of the practice of mindfulness as described in the Satipatthana Sutta.
Gaia House :  Study Retreat: A Buddhist Secular Retreat

2012-07-16 Radical Attention 59:28
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Reflections on meditation as radical attention (yoniso manasikara), mindfulness of breathing, and the Satipatthana Sutta.
Gaia House :  Study Retreat: A Buddhist Secular Retreat

2012-07-02 More on the four foundations of mindfulness. 55:09
Bhante Khippapanno	Download Listen
Explainations of the introductory chapter of the Maha Satipatthana
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-03-05 Body as Teacher: First Foundation of Mindfulness 58:04
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
The central theme of this talk is the Body is the Teacher. Based on the Satipatthana Sutta with First Foundation emphasis, the talk outlines Mindfulness of Breathing, of the four postures, and of full awareness in the continuity of all activities. Offers practical instructions, personal stories, and stories from the time of the Buddha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-01-05 Wise Mindfulness 43:15
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
this talk will explore aspects of the Satipatthana sutta, the root discourse of insight meditation and mindfulness based applications.
Gaia House :  Origins And Applications Of Mindfulness MBCT MBSR Retreat

2011-12-13 Satipatthana Sutta, Fourth Foundation: Discerning the Self 67:28
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Discernment must ultimately understand the nature of self completely. Awareness saw in the Third Foundation how the self was born from a feeling and elaborated on with thought forming the story and image of "I." Even though that process is now understood (wisdom), still, because of its tremendous momentum, there may be a residual belief in the self when it arises. Discernment wears down that residual belief by tracking the sense of self through all its manifestations until there is no longer the belief in self even though there is the occasional arising of self.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-11-22 Satipatthana Sutta, Fourth Foundation: Discernment and the Hindrances 47:25
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Struggling with the hindrances draws us back into form. Each hindrance has to be thoroughly understood so that when it arises we no longer invest reality into its appearance. Discernment is the only tool that can reveal the truth of its emptiness. In seeing the true nature of the hindrance, we see our own and the struggle ends. All other applications of practice reinvest thought into the form and make it more than what it is.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-11-08 Satipatthana Sutta, Fourth Foundation: Application of Discernment 56:22
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Applying discernment requires an honesty of intent. That honesty is the discernment at work. If you need skillful means to help balance the energy, use it. It can be helpful to back up to the First Foundation and see how the state of mind is affecting the body. Next, move to the Second Foundation and catch the feeling tone and the accompanying story. Moving onto the Third Foundation, settle to see just what this state is in essence. Finally, apply discerning questions that pick apart the solidity and truth of the state of mind such as, "Is there space for this too?" "Where is the "me" in this state?"
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-10-27 The Direct Path 58:53
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Drawing on references from the Satipatthana Sutta, this talk explores four qualities of mind & heart which the Buddha emphasized as being an essential part of our approach to meditation practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2011-10-25 Satipatthana Sutta, Fourth Foundation: The Effort to Discern 66:08
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
What is a skillful or unskillful state of mind? What do those terms mean--skillful for what purpose? Even to know something at this most basic level requires active discernment. The Buddha may have said certain states were skillful or unskillful, but that does nothing for your practice. You have to see its effect on you and know its impact directly.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-10-11 Satipatthana Sutta, Fourth Foundation: The Spirit of Questioning 56:21
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Questions are the life's blood of the dharma. If we are willing to follow wherever the question takes us, then the question will take us out of our beliefs and opinions into something new and unexplored. Something will end in us and will not arise again in the same way.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-09-27 Satipatthana Sutta, Fourth Foundation: Independent Seeing 65:21
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The Kalama sutta fits very nicely into the discussion on freeing awareness completely from any inward or outward authority. In the most radical statement possible the Buddha severs all ties from any dependency, essentially saying that freedom is not possible if one leans in any direction whatsoever.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-09-26 2 Group Study - Satipatthana and The Cook 62:00
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  Five Day Study Retreat

2011-09-16 Opening Talk for Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/MBSR Retreat 60:30
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
This talk also includes John Teasdale and Jenny Wilks. This is the introductory talk for a retreat that is particularly relevant to those teaching or training in mindfulness-based applications. The retreat explores the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, as taught in the Satipatthana discourse given by the Buddha.
Gaia House :  Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/MBSR

2011-09-13 Satipatthana Sutta, Fourth Foundation: The Lions Roar 59:42
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Accessing the Fourth Foundation is as easy as abiding in wonder. A question that is interesting to you but does not immediately resolve itself into an answer holds that wonder. When you hold a question without trying to immediately find the answer, you will feel the pull of form (needing to know the answer) in conflict with the formless (the wonder within the mystery of the question itself).
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-08-30 Satipatthana Sutta: Questions and Answers 62:08
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-08-16 Satipatthana Sutta, Fourth Foundation: An Overview (2) 65:28
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
A quality of awareness is discernment, which can be active or passive. Passive discernment is seeing, "just this" without doing anything about it, while active discernment is uncovering what is hidden and unconscious. It uses an energetic and curious probing to broaden the expanse of awareness and welcome it beyond its egoic boundaries.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-08-02 Satipatthana Sutta, Fourth Foundation: An Overview (1) 1:38
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness is the ability to discern what limits freedom and to see the value of open awareness when it is not limited. It encourages a complete examination and investigation of mind until there is existence without obstructions.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-07-12 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: The Personal and Impersonal 56:49
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The personal evolves into the impersonal with time and exposure to awareness. The less "you" do about this process, the quicker it happens on its own. Simply say when a state of mind arises, "Is this about me?" In one way it is, in another way it is not. Be willing to see both tendencies and investigate each.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-06-28 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Division Through Arrogance 1:26
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Arrogance is a remnant from the pain of the self that wants to be seen and heard as special and privileged. It is our spiritual work to watch not only the subtle grasping and aversive formations of self but its gross manifestations like arrogance as well. What is the pain behind this mental display, and what are the assumptions that move arrogance forward?
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-06-14 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Division Through Boredom 1:12
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Boredom tries to convince you that you must wait for life to be interesting enough to live and that now is not worth paying attention to. Boredom has you bypass the present for the excitement of a future possibility. Ask yourself when boredom arises, "When is life better than now?"
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-05-24 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Division Through Worry 59:12
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Worry attempts to protect us from every contingency. It becomes a pattern and view of life where I am the guardian and protector of my security. Worry is actually a process of self-affirmation because we keep affirming our power over what life brings forth. If I let down my guard, life would be chaotic and out of control, and therefore I need to worry to have everything turn out as I wish. Worry and planning elevates us to the status of a god while we are actually being controlled by fear.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-05-10 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Division Through Judgment 58:55
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Judgment is seeing the world in quantifiable terms. There a holistic way of seeing that is not partial and comparative but becomes inaccessible when we believe in judgment. Let the presence of judgment remind you that your thinking and emoting is arising from an incomplete perception. Quiet yourself to the inward narrative and allow the whole mind, undivided by judgment, to arise.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-04-26 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Division Through Shame 59:40
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
While we may have guilt over an incident or a series of mishaps, shame is the accompanying attitude about oneself and can therefore be far more disruptive. Life becomes an uphill battle against our destructive inward narrative. Its variations go from feeling lesser and smaller than to being an obstacle and ultimately better off not existing. Confronting our conclusion around shame is taking on our emotional posture to life itself.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-04-12 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Division Through Anger 0:14
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Anger is often unconsciously encouraged because it clears away the doubting mind. "I know why I feel this way, and I am right," says anger. Spiritually we can only approach and understand anger from humility, the opposite direction of righteousness. Anger usually arises as a component of grief where something you cared about was blocked or diverted away from you. If we can see anger as grief, humility is more easily accessed.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-03-29 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Division Through Doubt 63:04
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The mind finds endless reasons to energetically split itself in two. "Shoulds," denials, rationalizations, resentments, and countless other states are energetic divisions, where the mind is trying to have what it wants while hiding from its assumed reality. Doubt is perhaps the most common expression of this pattern. Doubt reaches for what it wants with half a heart because it fears the repercussions of being a failure.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-03-08 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Division Through Fear 68:19
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Fear divides the mind by convincing us that the present is in the crosshairs of an approaching disaster. We therefore need to harness the power of our thinking and take flight physically and mentally away from now. If presence is maintained, fear has no way to access the moment except by projecting into the future.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-02-22 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Dividing the Mind Through Aversion 57:47
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Aversion and desire work together to entrap the mind within its own projections and divide the whole into parts. The opposite of what I desire is feared and visa versa. Because the mind is a single whole, when we pit what we like against what we do not, repetitive aversive and desiring images noisily dance through the mind in opposition to the contentment of the abiding wholeness.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-02-08 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Dividing the Mind Through Desire 54:27
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Desire forms the sense of self by fracturing the mind into what it wants compared to what it has. In moving with what it wants, it has to dismiss or resist reality (what it has) and form its own imaginative response. The sense of self is part of that fantasy buildup and has a central role in keeping it going.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-01-25 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: The Divided Mind 59:26
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
As we study the Third Foundation of the Satipatthana Sutta we ask what is the mind and how does it seem to create a sense of self having the experience of an external world?
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-01-11 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Awareness of the Mind 66:46
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the body gave us stability of focus and mindfulness of feelings gave us the mechanism for how we project ourselves onto the world. Now we are sufficiently prepared to look at the mind itself.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-12-21 Satipatthana Sutta, Second Foundation: Equanimity 52:20
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Equanimity does not empower feelings to drive thoughts. It holds a feeling as a feeling and does not extend the feeling into a narrative on why this feeling is important. It does not add anything to the moment, allowing the moment to bloom on its own.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-11-23 Satipatthana Sutta, Second Foundation: Feelings Unleashing Thoughts 4:41
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Feelings move quickly into a narrative that captures our attention and promotes further images, all with their own feelings and further story. The sense of "I" arises, and we are surrounded by feelings and reactions to feelings, giving us a sense of ourselves in time and space. We call this life.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-11-09 Satipatthana Sutta, Second Foundation: Neutral Feelings 58:18
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Neutral feelings pervade our life when we try to maintain a high level of intensity for our life's purpose and meaning. Busyness is an indication of this dependency, but as soon as the energy decreases below an established threshold, our mind wonders, and we become dull, listless, and uninterested. Awareness has not waned in the slightest, but we have been conditioned to stop paying attention.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-10-26 Satipatthana Sutta, Second Foundation: Unpleasantness Leading to Divisiveness 58:06
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Once a moment is avoided, a world view of division and separation springs forth, accompanied by a compelling narrative that justifies the aversion. Now we are in full armor with the world as our adversary, tying us to a ceaseless argument with it.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-10-12 Satipatthana Sutta, Second Foundation: The Pain of Pleasure 59:21
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Once pleasure becomes a determined pursuit, the world divides itself into a pleasure/pain polarity. We now pursue pleasure, both to sustain a pleasant feeling and to avoid the discontent of pain.<br />
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-10-04 Introduction to Satipatthana 61:37
Leigh Brasington	Download Listen
Mindfulness of breathing, four postures, mindfulness of bodily activities, Charnel Ground Contemplations
Gaia House :  Paticca-Samuppada and Jhana Dependent Co-Origination and the Meditative Absorptions

2010-09-28 Satipatthana Sutta, Second Foundation: Leaning into Feelings 62:08
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The Second Foundation of Feelings is most easily held within the First Foundation of Body. The body gives clues to the mind's feelings. Postures such as physically leaning toward, away, or wandering in confusion show that the body is moving in alignment to a conditioned reference.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-09-14 Satipatthana Sutta, Second Foundation: Feelings Molding Character 61:17
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Feelings are the first conditioned reference we offer the moment. Through our feelings we are prepared to turn away, ignore, or grasp the experience at hand. Feelings set up our attitudes, personal story, and character to carry us forward in a predisposed way.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-09-13 The Buddhas Instructions on Mindfulness 47:04
Jenny Wilks	Download Listen
An overview of the 'refrain' of the Satipatthana Sutta and how it can inform our practice.
Gaia House :  Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/MBSR

2010-08-24 Satipatthana Sutta, First Foundation: Mindfulness of the Mind Within the Body 53:13
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
How do the mind and body relate and does this tell us something regarding our identification with the processes involved? How does "mine and yours" become established within this relationship of mind/body?
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-08-03 Satipatthana Sutta, First Foundation: Death and the Body (2) 59:13
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
As we explore the body from this sutta, we realize the inevitability of loss and begin to see death everywhere. Death takes us through various stages of realization, altering our life and changing it forever. We learn to live consciously with all beginnings and endings.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-07-06 Satipatthana Sutta, First Foundation: Death and the Body (1) 59:24
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The Buddha seems to be encouraging an exploration of the themes of death and the body in this passage of the Satipatthana Sutta. Though all of us know we are going to die, few of us realize that fact as a living truth. This passage is meant to release us from our denial that fixates on permanency and continuity.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-06-26 Dhammanupassana Satipatthana II 59:27
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Enlightenment factors
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  June 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge