Satipa__h_na (often translated as ÒFoundations of mindfulnessÓ) is the Buddha's method of wisdom contemplation, best known through the ancient practice tutorial The Satipa__h_na Sutta. It is recognized as the basis of modern vipassan_ or insight meditation and of many other modern and historical practices. Unfortunately, the complexities of Buddhist intellectual history have not been kind to this early teaching.
Satipa__h_na Rethought is a short meditation manual for the modern student that covers the same exercises found in the Satipa__h_na Sutta, and is based entirely on a critical rereading of the earliest Buddhist texts, undertaken to recover a doctrinally coherent, cognitively realistic and etymologically sound interpretation of this ancient wisdom practice. Satipa__h_na as taught here extends Dhamma study to investigation in terms of direct experience, actualizing the BuddhaÕs instruction to Òcome and see.Ó It integrates sam_dhi or jh_na as a necessary and critical factor in this practice. Its fruit is "knowledge and vision of things as they are," declared by the Buddha as close to awakening. Widely neglected aspects of the ancient practice are highlighted in this manual, including its sophisticated exploration of non-self and of the mental constructedness (emptiness) of the Òobjective world.Ó, Buddhism, meditation, vipassana, jhana, satipatthana, Bhikkhu Cintita| | 98PAGES