Theme

Mindfulness

Sati — the bare remembering of what is here. The seventh limb of the path and the gateway to the four foundations.

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Knowledge

Portrait of Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Practices

Sati — Mindfulness

The continuous, non-judgmental awareness of what is arising in the present moment. The Buddha's central instruction — and the gateway through which the dharma has entered the West.

Portrait of Mahasi Sayadaw, founder of the modern noting method of vipassana

PracticesTheravada

Vipassana — Insight Meditation

The practice of seeing the three marks of existence — impermanence, suffering, non-self — directly in moment-to-moment experience. The Buddha's central method.

Archival 1911 museum plate photograph of the Lion Capital of Ashoka from Sarnath, showing the dharma wheel carved on its abacus

Core Teachings

The Noble Eightfold Path

The fourth of the Four Noble Truths is the path itself — eight interrelated factors grouped under wisdom, ethical conduct, and mental discipline. It is the Buddha's prescription for the ending of suffering.

Practices

Walking Meditation

The practice of bringing full awareness to each step. The Buddha's own movement — and the cure for the sleepiness of long sitting.

Sacred Sites

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Sarnath

The First Sermon.

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Rajgir

The Teaching Hills.

Teachings

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The Dhammapada in Daily Life — Episode 01

The opening episode of a serial reading and commentary on the Dhammapada — the Buddha's collected sayings, the most widely-read text in the Theravada world, rendered into a daily contemplation.

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The Dhammapada in Daily Life — Episode 02

The second episode of the Dhammapada series. The verse held against the small frictions of daily life.

Mani Bhadra Pokhrel

15-Minute Daily Meditation

A fifteen-minute guided meditation in the UN Global Initiative series — a daily contemplative practice broadcast for the cultivation of individual and collective peace.

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Meditation for Individual and Collective Peace — I

A meditation broadcast in the UN initiative series, framed around the explicit aim of cultivating both individual peace and the wider peace of the world.

Products

Mahabodhi Society

The Satipatthana Sutta · with commentary

320 pages. The Buddha's foundational discourse on the four foundations of mindfulness. Annotated by Sayadaw U. Pandita lineage teachers.

$42 Samoira × Lumbini Estate

Zafu — Lumbini Cotton

Traditional round zafu — kapok-filled, organic cotton cover. 14" diameter, 6" tall. Sits firm. The cover is removable and machine-washable. Available in saffron, charcoal, and aged ivory.

$89

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