Maraṇasati Practice

Recollection of Death

Bhikkhu Anālayo

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The talk

Bhikkhu Anālayo — the German-born scholar-monk whose comparative-canon work on the early discourses has reshaped academic Buddhism — turns from the desk to the cushion and recommends the single practice he believes most worth doing: maraṇasati, the recollection of death. The talk, recorded for the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, walks the practice as the suttas describe it, and explains why Anālayo, after decades of scholarship across all four early canons, considers it the practice with the highest leverage for awakening.

Why this is foundational

The single practice recommendation from the leading early-Buddhist scholar of the modern era.

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Reflections

The sangha responds.

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