Tradition
Satipatthana
Overview
Satipatthana (Pali: Satipaṭṭhāna; Sanskrit: smṛtyupasthāna) is a central practice in the Buddha's teachings, meaning "the establishment of mindfulness" or "presence of mindfulness", or alternatively "foundations of mindfulness", aiding the development of a wholesome state of mind. In Theravada Buddhism, applying mindful attention to four domains, the body, feelings, the mind, and key principles or categories of the Buddha's teaching (dhammās), is thought to aid the elimination of the five hindrances and the development of the seven aspects of awakening.
The Satipatthana Sutta is probably the most influential meditation text in modern Theravada Buddhism, on which the teachings of the Vipassana movement are based. While these teachings are found in all Buddhist traditions, modern Theravada Buddhism and the Vipassana Movement are known especially for promoting the practice of satipaṭṭhāna as developing mindfulness to gain insight into impermanence, thereby reaching a first state of liberation. In the popular understanding, mindfulness has developed into a practice of bare awareness to calm the mind.
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The sensitivity is thus a soul in which the whole mental life is condensed. The total individual under this concentrated aspect is distinct from the existing and actual play of his consciousness, his secular ideas, developed interests, inclinations, &c. As contrasted with this looser aggregate of means and methods the more intensive form of individuality is termed the genius, whose decision is ultimate whatever may…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
States what Satipatthana is.
Others have had ideas about the stars: the heavens were supposed to be composed of perforated metal, by which we see throughout the empyrean region, the eternal fire which surrounds the world. Such propositions as products of the understanding, do not belong to the history of Philosophy, although they imply that the merely sensuous gaze has been left behind, as also the representation of those objects by the…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
States what Satipatthana is.
The ancient teachers define _avyaktam_ as the “equilibrium of the three forces,” one of which is called _Sattva_, the second _Rajas_ and the third _Tamas_. _Tamas_, the lowest force, is that of attraction, a little higher is _Rajas_, that of repulsion, and the highest is the control of these two, _Sattva_, so that when the two forces, attraction and repulsion, are held in perfect control, or balance, by the…
Swami Vivekananda, Jnâna Yoga, Part II
States what Satipatthana is.
Philosophers who discussed Satipatthana
Related ideas
- Prajñā (Buddhism)
- Abhidharmakośa-bhāsya
- Prajnaparamita
- Samadhi
- Nyingma
- Buddhist meditation
- Soteriology
- Sarvastivada
- Ajahn Buddhadasa
- Skandha
- Visuddhimagga
- Majjhima Nikāya
- Vedanā
- Anattā
- 14th Dalai Lama
- Chögyam Trungpa
- Nirvana
- Noble Eightfold Path
- Nagarjuna
- Abhidharma
- Sanskrit
- Pali Canon
- Mahayana
- Sutra
Place in the tradition
Part of Yoga.