Satipatthana Meditation: A Practice Guide

✍ Scribed by Analayo

• Publisher: Windhorse Publications
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

From the Buddhist meditator and scholar, Bhikkhu Anālayo, this is a thorough-going guide to the early Buddhist teachings on Satipatthana, the foundations of mindfulness, following on from his two best-selling books, Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization and Perspectives on Satipatthana. With mindfulness being so widely taught, there is a need for a clear-sighted and experience-based guide. Analayo provides it.

Review
An eminently pragmatic discussion of how to put these teachings into practice. Anālayo has developed a simple and straightforward map of practice instructions encompassing all four satipaṭṭhānas – the body, feelings, mind and dharmas – that build upon one another in a coherent and comprehensive path leading to the final goal. - Joseph Goldstein, from the Foreword

This is a pearl of a book. The wise and experienced teacher is offering Dhamma reflections, illuminating the practice of Satipaṭṭhāna with a fertile and colourful lucidity. It is a treasure-house of practical teachings, rendered accessible with a clear and simple eloquence, and with praiseworthy skill and grace. - Ajahn Amaro

Once more Bhikkhu Anālayo has written a masterpiece that holds within it an accessible and clear guide to developing and applying the teachings held within the Satipaṭṭhāna-sutta. Within this book Anālayo explores the subtle nuances of developing mindfulness and how that dedicated cultivation leads to the awakening pointed to in the discourse. This is an indispensable meditative guide for anyone truly seeking to understand and know for themselves the liberating insights offered in the four ways of establishing mindfulness. - Christina Feldman

This breathtaking Practice Guide is brief, and profound! It offers a detailed, engaging, and flexible approach to Satipaṭṭhāna meditation that can be easily applied both in meditation and day to day activities. The inspired practice suggestions and joyful inquiry will draw students, gradually but surely, toward deep liberating insight. Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation: A Practice Guide is an invaluable resource for meditators! - Shaila Catherine, author of Focused and Fearless: A Meditator's Guide to States of Deep Joy, Calm, and Clarity
About the Author
Anālayo is a professor of Buddhist Studies at the Sri Lanka International Academy in Pallekele. He teaches at the Center for Buddhist Studies of the University of Hamburg and researches at the Dharma Drum Buddhist College in Taiwan. His works include Satipatthāna: The Direct Path to Realization (2003), Perspectives on Satipatthāna (2014), Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation (2015), Mindfully Facing Disease and Death (2016), and A Meditator’s Life of the Buddha (2017).