Satipatthana Sutta - Aug 1, 2020

Satipatthana Sutta


Majjhima Nikaya 10: The Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness

  1. Kāyā (body):  breath, posture and activities, body parts, atomatic element, nature of death and impermanence, impersonal nature of the body
  2. Vedanā (sensations/feelings aroused by perception):
    • understanding feelings as pleasant, unpleasant, or neither-pleasant-nor-unpleasant (neutral) feelings;
    • in this way, remaining focussed on feelings in themselves; or clear comprehension of arising and vanishing with regard to feelings; or sustained mindfulness of the presence of feelings.
  3. Cittā (mind/consciousness),[note 3] awareness of the presence and absence of the unwholesome states of the three poisons (lust, hate, delusion); and the presence or absence of the wholesome states related to dhyana:
    • Three poisons:
      • lust (sarāgaṃ) or without lust (vītarāgaṃ)
      • hate (sadosaṃ) or without hate (vītadosaṃ)
      • delusion (samohaṃ) or without delusion (vītamohaṃ)
    • Dhyana-related factors:
      • contracted (saṅkhittaṃ) or scattered (vikkhittaṃ)
      • lofty (mahaggataṃ) or not lofty (amahaggataṃ)[note 4]
      • surpassable (sa-uttaraṃ) or unsurpassed (anuttaraṃ)[note 5]
      • quieted (samāhitaṃ) or not quieted (asamāhitaṃ)
      • released (vimuttaṃ) or not released (avimuttaṃ)
    • In this way, remaining focussed on the mind itself; or clear comprehension of arising and vanishing with regard to mind; or sustained mindfulness of the presence of mind
  4. Dhammā (elements of the Buddhist teachings):[note 7]
    • the five hindrances: awareness of the presence or absence, arising and abandoning, and no future arising, of sensual desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and remorse, and uncertainty;
    • the five skandhas, the aggregates of clinging: the discernment of the existence, the origination, and the disappearance, of form, feeling, perception, formations (mental dispositions), and consciousness;
    • the six sense-bases, and the fetters that arise in dependence on them: discerning the internal sense-media (eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, intellect), the external sense-media (forms, sounds, odours, tangibles), the arising of fetters in dependence on the six-sense bases, the abandonment of the arisen fetters, and the future non-arising of these fetters;
    • the Seven factors of awakening: 1) awareness of the presence or absence, the arising, and the culmination, of sati'(mindfulness), 2) dhamma vicaya (investigation nature of reality, of dhammas), 3) viriya (energy, effort, persistence, determination),  4) pīti (rapture), 5) passaddhi (tranquility, relaxation (of body and mind)), 6) samadhi (clear awareness, concentration), 7) upekkha (equanimity);
    • the Four Noble Truths.

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