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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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Introduction to early Buddhism, book and class
Two announcements: book I’ve just published a new addition of my 2020 book, Mindfulness, where Dharma meets practice. The title is now simply Where Dharma…
New Book: Rethinking Satipaṭṭhāna
From investigating Dhamma to dwelling in jhāna,Bhikkhu Cintita (2025) Satipaṭṭhāna (often translated as “Foundations of mindfulness”) is the Buddha’s method of wisdom contemplation, best known…
The jhānas: Dhamma made easy
Chapter in the rethinking satipaṭṭhāna series What follows is an account of the jhānas and the fulfillment of the functions attributed to them in the…
Major themes of satipaṭṭhāna investigation
The contemplative practice of satipaṭṭhāna is a process of verifying and internalizing Dhamma through experiential investigation, moving beyond a mere intellectual understanding of Dhamma to…
Satipaṭṭhāna Rethought, now in print
Satipaṭṭhāna Rethought: a meditation manual based on earliest Buddhist texts. Satipaṭṭhāna (often translated as “Foundations of mindfulness”) is the Buddha’s method of wisdom contemplation, best…
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…