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Satipatthana (Pali: Satipaṭṭhāna; Sanskrit: smṛtyupasthāna) is a central practice in the Buddha's teachings, meaning "the establishment of mindfulness" or "presence of mindfulness", or alternatively "foundations of mindfulness", aiding the development of a wholesome state of mind.
Satipatthana explicates mindfulness, the seventh limb of the eightfold path, and is to be understood as an integral part of this path. [ 36 ] Polak, elaborating on Vetter, notes that the onset of the first dhyana is described as a quite natural process, due to the preceding efforts to restrain the senses and the nurturing of wholesome states .
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Satipatthana, as four foundations of mindfulness, c.q. anapanasati, "mindfulness of breathing," is being employed to attain Vipassanā , insight into the true nature of reality as impermanent and anatta, c.q. sunyata, lacking any permanent essence.
Satipatthana Sutta Discourses: Talks from a Course in Maha-Satipatthana Sutta. Seattle, WA: Vipassana Research Institute. ISBN 0-9649484-2-7. Kuan, Tse-fu (2008), Mindfulness in Early Buddhism: New Approaches through Psychology and Textual Analysis of Pāli, Chinese and Sanskrit Sources, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-43737-0
[1] [2] [note 1] The practitioner then engages in satipatthana by mindfulness of breathing. One pays attention to any arising mental or physical phenomenon, engaging in vitakka, noting or naming physical and mental phenomena ("breathing, breathing"), without engaging the phenomenon with further conceptual thinking.
The Visuddhimagga is one of the main texts on which contemporary vipassana method (and the vipassana movement itself) is based, together with the Satipatthana Sutta. Yet, its emphasis on kasina -meditation and its claim of the possibility of "dry insight" has also been criticised and rejected by some contemporary Theravada scholars and ...
The Satipatthana Sutta instructs the meditator to reflect thus: 'This body of mine, too, is of the same nature as that body, is going to be like that body, and has not got past the condition of becoming like that body.' Illustration of mindfulness of death using corpses in a charnel ground, a subset of mindfulness of the body, the first ...