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Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

Satipatthana Meditation Society of Canada

214 episodes

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In this episode, we explore Form Sphere Consciousness (Rūpāvacara Citta)—the refined states of mind that arise through deep concentration meditation. The talk explains how practicing one of the forty subjects of samatha (tranquility) meditation leads to the development of jhana and rebirth in the form-sphere Brahma realms. You will learn about the fifteen types of form-sphere consciousness—five wholesome, five resultant, and five functional—and how each relates to jhana attainment. The episod...

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In this episode, we explore Form Sphere Consciousness (Rūpāvacara Citta)—the refined states of mind that arise through deep concentration meditation. The talk explains how practicing one of the forty subjects of samatha (tranquility) meditation leads to the development of jhana and rebirth in the form-sphere Brahma realms. You will learn about the fifteen types of form-sphere consciousness—five wholesome, five resultant, and five functional—and how each relates to jhana attainment. The episod...

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Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

216: Form Sphere Consciousness (Rūpāvacara Citta)

In this episode, we explore Form Sphere Consciousness (Rūpāvacara Citta)—the refined states of mind that arise through deep concentration meditation. The talk explains how practicing one of the forty subjects of samatha (tranquility) meditation leads to the development of jhana and rebirth in the form-sphere Brahma realms. You will learn about the fifteen types of form-sphere consciousness—five wholesome, five resultant, and five functional—and how each relates to jhana attainment. The episod...

1 week ago

32 minutes

Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

215: About Jhana

In this episode, we explore jhana, the higher states of concentration. Moving beyond ordinary beautiful consciousness, jhana represents deeply refined, purified states of mind that arise only through dedicated meditation. We break down what jhana truly means, why it cannot be captured by English words like “ecstasy” or “absorption,” and how it functions by burning away the five mental hindrances. The talk explains the two types of jhana—samatha-based concentration and vipassana-based insight—...

3 weeks ago

34 minutes

Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

214: Practices of Guaranteed Result (Apaṇṇakapaṭipadā)

In this episode, “Practices of Guaranteed Result,” we explore the Buddha’s three essential techniques—known as Apaṇṇakapaṭipadā—that promise undeniable progress on the path when practiced diligently. These three techniques are simple but profound: restraining the six sense doors, eating sensibly, and maintaining continuous mindfulness. Through practical examples and step-by-step guidance, the episode explains how to guard the mind at each sense contact, how wise eating supports clarity,...

1 month ago

24 minutes

Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

213: Causes of Arising Beautiful Consciousness

“Causes of Beautiful Consciousness” explores how our inner world is shaped by three powerful factors—feeling, prompting, and knowledge. This episode explains how pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant feelings influence our habits and reactions; how our health, discipline, and environment affect whether our actions arise spontaneously or need deliberate prompting; and how past actions, learning, and meditation nurture wisdom. Through relatable examples—like the taste of blue cheese, th...

1 month ago

29 minutes

Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

212: Beautiful Consciousness of Sensuous Realms (Kamavacara Sobhana Citta)

Sayar Myat presents the twenty-four beautiful consciousnesses (sobhana citta) of the sensuous realm, divided into wholesome, resultant, and functional groups. Through simple storylines, he explains how wholesome consciousness arises with joy, wisdom, spontaneity, or prompting, and how these moments are free from unwholesome states. He then describes how beautiful resultant consciousness appears as the fruit of past wholesome actions, and how beautiful functional consciousness operates i...

1 month ago

22 minutes

Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

211: Beautiful Consciousness (Sobhana Citta)

In this Dhamma talk, Sayadaw introduces Sobhana Citta, the Beautiful Consciousness. “Sobhana” means beautiful, graceful, or pure; “Citta” means consciousness. Together they describe the states of mind rooted in non-greed (alobha), non-anger (adosa), and non-delusion (amoha) — the three wholesome roots. Sayadaw explains how consciousness with two or three of these roots becomes truly beautiful, arising mainly in the sensuous realm (kāmāvacara). The talk explores the three subgroups of beautifu...

1 month ago

22 minutes

Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

210: Chanda (Desire, Wanting)

This talk explores the true meaning of chanda — not as craving, but as the neutral, wholesome intention to act. Learn how understanding and observing this “wanting consciousness” in daily life can lead from desire to wisdom. YouTube Video Link YouTube Channel Link Website: www.satipatthana.ca Donations and Memberships

1 month ago

31 minutes

Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

209: Rootless Consciousness (Part 2)

In this episode, we continue exploring rootless consciousness—states of awareness that arise without mental roots of greed, hatred, or delusion. Building on Part One, we dive deeper into the 18 types of rootless consciousness, grouped as unwholesome, wholesome, and functional. Each is shaped by three factors: its nature, feeling (pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral), and kind of consciousness. Through vivid explanations, this talk shows how our sensory experiences—seeing, hearing, touching, and ...

2 months ago

44 minutes

Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

208: Life Continuum (Bhavanga)

This episode explores the Buddhist concept of bhavaṅga, or the “life continuum” — the stream of consciousness that connects one moment to the next, and even one life to another. It explains how our unique personalities at birth may arise from past lives, carried through this subtle flow of awareness. We also look at how consciousness operates between wakefulness and deep sleep, and how every perception — seeing, hearing, thinking — unfolds through a rapid series of thought moments. Using the ...

2 months ago

35 minutes

Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

207: Rootless Consciousness (Part 1) 'Ahituka Citta'

This talk describes to how past karma patterns present experience—and how mindful attention stops old patterns from creating new ones. We explore the meaning of rootless consciousness (ahituka) in Buddhist teaching — the states of mind that arise without the “roots” of greed, hatred, or delusion, but also without the wholesome roots of generosity or wisdom. These moments of awareness don’t create new karma; instead, they’re the results of our past actions unfolding in the present...

2 months ago

29 minutes

Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

206: Benefits of Being a Monk (Sāmaññaphala Sutta)

Over 2,600 years ago, on a full moon night at Jīvaka’s mango grove near Rājagaha, King Ajātasattu—haunted by guilt for killing his father—approached the Buddha with a simple but profound question: What are the benefits, in this life, of being a monk? The Buddha’s response, later known as the Sāmaññaphala Sutta, unfolded into one of the most comprehensive teachings on the spiritual path. In this episode, we explore how the Buddha skillfully led the king from worldly examples of freedom and sim...

2 months ago

34 minutes

Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

205: Unwholesome Consciousness (Akusala Citta)

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2 months ago

31 minutes

Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

204: Consciousness by Nature (Genus)

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2 months ago

21 minutes

Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

203: Consciousness by Planes of Existence

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3 months ago

27 minutes

Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

202: Moral Corruption and the Disaster of the Physical World

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3 months ago

27 minutes

Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

201: Four Causes of Materiality of the Body (Part 2)

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3 months ago

29 minutes

Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

200: Four Causes of Materiality of the Body (Part 1)

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3 months ago

25 minutes

Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

199: Beautiful Mental Factors 'Sobhana Cetasika' (Part 6) The Faculty of Wisdom

In this episode, we explore the 25th and final beautiful mental factor — the Faculty of Wisdom (Paññindriya). Drawing from Buddhist teachings, we uncover the true meaning of paññā — “knowing rightly” — and how it differs from mere knowledge. Learn how wisdom arises through direct experience in meditation, dispels ignorance like light removing darkness, and serves as one of the five controlling faculties. This talk concludes our series on the 52 mental factors, explaining their nature, f...

3 months ago

36 minutes

Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

198: Beautiful Mental Factors 'Sobhana Cetasika' (Part 5) Limitless Mental Factors (Appamaññā)

In this episode, we explore the third subgroup of beautiful mental factors, known as the Limitless (Appamaññā). These mental states take all living beings as their object of focus and include loving-kindness (Mettā), compassion (Karunā), appreciative joy (Muditā), and equanimity (Upekkhā). From this group, we focus on compassion and appreciative joy — understanding their true nature, how they arise, and how easily they can be misunderstood or mixed with unwholesome states such as anger, sorro...

4 months ago

36 minutes

Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings

197: Beautiful Mental Factors 'Sobhana Cetasika' (Part 4) Abstinence

In this episode, we explore the second subgroup of the beautiful mental factors — Abstinence (Vīrati). This group consists of three mental factors: Right Speech (Sammā Vācā), Right Action (Sammā Kammanta), and Right Livelihood (Sammā Ājīva). While these three also appear in the morality group of the Noble Eightfold Path, here we understand them as specific mental factors — wholesome states that arise when one volitionally refrains from unwholesome actions. We learn how: Right Speech means ref...

4 months ago

30 minutes