Discover the radical brilliance of the Satipatthana Sutta as a guide to Insight and freedom. Through meditating on the four gateways to mindfulness: the body, sensations and feeling-tone, thoughts and emotions, and Reality, we can experience this seminal text on mindfulness as a map of consciousness, a drama of awakening and a cosmic invitation.
This page contains recordings from three events on the Satipatthana sutta: a seminar series, guided meditations, and a retreat at Adhishthana in August 2021. Click below to expand the relevant event and access the recordings.
Retreat Resources at bottom of page.
Satipatthana: Mindfulness as a Direct Path of Awakening | Click Here
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Day 1
welcome And dedication
The online and in-person teams introduce themselves and offer an overview of the retreat, before ritually opening with a dedication ceremony.
Day 2
overview of the sutta
the definition verse
Meditation
Day 2 study group questions | Click here
‘you can sometimes find a clear thread running through your life, revealing all your disparate experience as the manifestation of a single developing individuality … You might not realize the path your life is taking until you look back on it, but when you do become aware of your purpose, it might seem uncannily as though your life has had a direction of its own, independent of your conscious volition. As that direction emerges into consciousness, with the arising of some degree of clear comprehension, it is intensified and you can pursue it even more vigorously …’
Bhante, Living with Awareness
Ask someone in the group to volunteer as timekeeper.
1 / reflection / 5 minutes
Spend the first 5 minutes in the group, silently bringing to mind some of the most significant experiences in your own spiritual life. You don’t need to be too thorough about it: what naturally comes to mind?
Choose one event that you think expresses the ‘thread running through your life’, that expresses what’s most deeply important to you.
What is important and significant about that event for you?
2 / tell the story / 10 minutes each person
Share the event, and its significance for you.
Day 3
the breathing boDY
studying the breath
Meditation
Day 4
exploring vedana
study on vedana
amitabha mantra & meditation
Day 5
citta
Notice and transform
Padmasambhava mantra
Day 6
Dhammas and bodhiyangas
STUDY On DHAMMAS
Refuges and precepts
Day 7
Sesshin
Movement and Meditation
Thanks and farewell
Path of Awakening: Exploring the Satipatthana Sutta | Click here
This is the direct path for the purification of beings, for the surmounting of sorrow and lamentation, for the disappearance of dukkha and discontent, for acquiring the true method, for the realization of Nibbana, namely, the four satipatthanas’.
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1. Introducing the Satipatthana Sutta
2. Sensations
3. Kleshas
4. The awakening factors
Laying the Foundations: Meditating with the Satipatthana Sutta | Click here
By learning how to direct an active, intelligent awareness towards our breathing, bodily sensations, emotions, and thoughts we become able to see into the constantly changing nature of reality and free ourselves from clinging.
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