Buddhist Life / Buddhist Path in person and via Zoom 12 weeks 2/14 – 5/1/2024 Wednesdays 7:00 – 8:30pm Central (Chicago) Time with Bhikkhu Cintita Sitagu Dhamma Vihāra, Chisago City, MN USA, email BC to register and for Zoom link. This course is based on the earliest stratum of Buddhist texts interpreted for the modern ..read more

a practice guide for contemplating Dhamma This is the one way, bhikkhus, a path for the purification of beings, for the surmounting of sorrow and lamentation, for the disappearance of pain and grief, for the attainment of the true way, for the realization of Nibbāna—namely, the four satipaṭṭhānas. (Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, MN 10) So begins the ..read more

RETHINKING THE SATIPAṬṬHĀNA SERIES The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (MN 10) describes a practice of contemplating Dhamma in terms of direct experience through a long series of exercises, which are grouped under the four categories of body, feelings, mind and dhammas. This practice is properly a development of right view, whereby individual Dhammic teachings are verified and ..read more

RETHINKING THE SATIPAṬṬĀNA SERIES By 1881 the scholar T.W. Rhys Davids had found the optimal translation for the Pali word sati. Previous scholars had variously tried translating or defining it as ‘remembrance,’ ‘memory,’ ‘recollection,’ ‘thinking of or upon,’ ‘calling to mind,’‘active state of mind,’ ‘fixing the mind strongly upon any subject,’ ‘attention,’ ‘attentiveness,’ ‘thought,’ ‘reflection ..read more

rethinking the satipaṭṭāna series Samādhi or jhāna is the meditative state, an attribute of mind (samāhita citta), recommended in the early texts. It arises with the delight in engagement in a task requiring utmost skill, as the mind centers itself fully around the competence and attentiveness required for that skill, and yet slips into an ..read more

ON LINE CLASS Buddhist Life/Buddhist Path an intoduction to Buddhism Sundays 3:00-4:30 pm CST (Chicago time) Starts Jan. 29 A 12-week course on the fundamental concepts of Buddhism based on the earliest sources. We will use Bhikkhu Cintita’s book Buddhist Life/Buddhist Path as a text, which is available as download or hard copy. Copies are ..read more

The technical vocabulary that circles around satipaṭṭāna gets jumbled up in modern teachings and scholarship, often with a failure to clearly distinguishing the various factors involve, or their interworkings. There is some question about whether Pali sati, conventionally translated into English as ‘mindfulness,’ refers to memory or to some special form of awareness of the ..read more

A podcast series on the Establishment of Mindfulness Bhukkhu Cintita starts Friday, March 18 Find it HERE ..read more

The following is another series of talks that has appeared in my two-year-old podcast series, found on the audio and video page and many podcast hosts. https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/twvavg/podcast-v31-samadhiRightView2.mp3 4. Samadhi and right view (2/2). How is it possible to develop knowledge and wisdom based on right view from within samadhi? This is the art of balancing ..read more

Please click on the image to hear the interview ..read more