THE BUDDHIST MIND
~ Cultivating The Four Foundations of Mindfulness (satipaṭṭhāna) ~
Body • Feeling • Consciousness • Phenomena
An Online Intensive with Whit Hornsberger (4 x 2 hour workshops)
The liberating practice of insight (vipassanā) meditation is built upon the teachings of the Buddhist discourse, the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta or The Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness. Colloquially referred to as The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, these teachings form the bedrock of the Buddha’s methodology of mindfulness meditation and are considered the domain of the meditator. Once established through ardent application, The Four Foundations of Mindfulness give rise to transformative experiential insights into ultimate reality, liberating the mind from the fetters of its past conditioning and concomitant physical and mental suffering.
Satipaṭṭhāna Vipassanā is a way of life, a way of mindfully and thus intimately engaging with life in every moment, in every posture and within every experience. It is accessible to everyone and an applicable practice for daily life, whether in the monastic setting or within the urban environment.
This workshops series will build upon the Part I of The Buddhist Heart, and will encompass discussion on Buddhist theory, exploring and integrating in detail The Four Foundations of Mindfulness and satipaṭṭhāna vipassanā meditation.
Each session includes a discourse / Dhamma talk and meditation practice on one of the foundations of mindfulness (satipaṭṭhānas), building and integrating all four systematically and progressively throughout the workshop series. Through direct felt experience each practitioner will bare witness to insights capable of radically shifting how we relate to the mind, the body and to life itself.
This intensive is accessible to all levels of experience and is an essential undertaking for those practitioners interested in gaining the highest benefit from their mindfulness / vipassanā (insight) meditation practice, those dealing with physical, mental and emotional injuries, those interested in embodied and societal well-being and anyone curious about accessing the limitless potential of the human mind.
Each session includes a Dhamma (philosophy) talk/presentation and mindfulness (satipaṭṭhāna vipassanā) meditation practice.
4 × 2 hour sessions • Live and Recorded via Zoom • by dāna
Live @ 17h GMT + 1 (Portugal)
Recordings will be available for 2 weeks following the live event
Session V: February 8
Session VI: February 22
Session VII: March 1
Session VIII: March 15