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He who, having traversed this miry, perilous,
and delusive round of existence,
who has crossed over, and reached the other shore,
who is meditative, calm, free from doubt,
and, clinging to nothing, has attained to nibbāna:
him do I call a holy one. (Dpd 414)
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Buddhist Life/Buddhist Path: online course
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…
Satipaṭṭhāna Rethought
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…
Non-self in Satipaṭṭhāna
RETHINKING THE SATIPAṬṬHĀNA The seminal Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta is today one of the most studied discourses of the entire Pali canon. It serves to verify, investigate,…
A back-road tour of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta
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…
How “mindfulness” got mislabeled
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…
Samādhi springs up
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…
Introduction to Buddhism via Zoom
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…
The Satipaṭṭhāna Method
rethinking the satipatthana series [revised 1/30/2023] Suppose you want to do something really well, maybe wash the dishes, ride a bicycle, write a report, identify…
Rethinking the Satipaṭṭhāna
A podcast series on the Establishment of Mindfulness Bhukkhu Cintita starts Friday, March 18 Find it HERE
Talks on Samādhi
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…
Interview with Bhikkhu Cintita: “Sitagu Sayadaw, the coup and Burmese Buddhism”
Please click on the image to hear the interview.
Talks on the Buddhist life and the Buddhist path
Continuing to offer an overview of my weekly podcasts for the last two years, I offer the two series that supplement my book Buddhist Life/Buddhist…
Audio: What did the Buddha think of women?
I have been quietly reposting my podcast to this site since the beginning of COVID on THIS PAGE. I thought I would start highlighting some…
New Book: Dependent Coarising, meaning construction in the twelve links
Finally I am able to announce the publication of the book that has been in the works for several years. I thank many for the…
The Buddha’s method
I have to admit that on first encounter the early Buddhist texts struck me as abstruse and disconnected, and that – given their antiquity and…