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Vipassana

Insight meditation. The seeing of impermanence, dukkha, and anatta in the body and mind moment by moment.

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Knowledge

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.

FiguresTheravada

Mahasi Sayadaw

Twentieth-century Burmese monk whose noting method — the moment-by-moment labeling of mental and physical phenomena — is the most widely-taught modern vipassana technique in the Theravada world.

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S.N. Goenka

Indian-born Burmese businessman who became one of the twentieth century's most widely-taught lay vipassana teachers. Founder of the worldwide network of ten-day vipassana courses in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin.

TraditionsTheravada

Theravada

The oldest surviving school of Buddhism — the way of the elders. The tradition that preserved the Pali Canon, the monastic rule, and the path of the arahant across twenty-three centuries from Sri Lanka through Southeast Asia.

Teachings

Ven. Kondanya Mahathero

The Path of the Abhidhamma — Session I

A teaching on the Abhidhamma — the higher analysis of mental factors that distinguishes the Theravada from every other Buddhist school. Session one of an ongoing series at Bhrikutimandap.

Ven. Kondanya Mahathero

The Path of the Abhidhamma — Session II

The continuation of the Abhidhamma series. Ven. Kondanya on the analysis of consciousness as the foundation of Theravada practice.

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

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