Part 5 · 21 Days of Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna — The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
Body, feelings, mind and dhammas, carried into daily life.
This Part is in production. The curriculum is written; the guided sittings are being recorded in English, Spanish and Russian. It will open to students who have completed the Part before it.
- Part
- 5 of 5
- Length
- 21 days · 2 sittings per day
- Practice
- Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna (the four foundations of mindfulness)
- Training
- Sīla, Samādhi, Paññā integrated
- Level
- Intermediate
- Prerequisite
- Part 4
- Status
- In production
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Russian
- Cost
- Donation-based
- Teacher
- Ocean DYNN
- Tradition
- Theravāda
What the Part contains
Twenty-one days following the Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta: mindfulness of the body, of feelings, of mind, and of dhammas, with the emphasis on carrying the practice into ordinary days — work, family, service.
The four foundations, the teacher's way
The sutta gives four foundations of mindfulness — the body, feelings, the mind, and dhammas — and this Part takes them in that order, on the base of ānāpānasati. The practice is given in three forms:
- Mindful sitting — the sittings of the earlier Parts, now held within the four foundations.
- Mindful walking, lying down and sitting — the same attention carried through every posture.
- Mindful eating — the meal as practice, not as an interruption of it.
Alongside them, going deeper into samādhi: surrender, stillness, non-doing.
Beyond the cushion
The sutta does not stop at sitting, and neither does this Part. The point of the whole course is continuity — the same attention at the table and at work as on the cushion.
Where the path points
The Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta names its own aim in its first lines: the direct path for the purification of beings, for overcoming sorrow and lamentation, for the ending of pain and grief, for the realisation of Nibbāna. This Part follows that direction — from the body as process, through the mind seen as a stream, to dependent origination and the absence of a fixed self.
A course can point the way and train the steps. It cannot schedule the destination, and nothing here claims to. What it offers is twenty-one days of practice aimed the way the Buddha aimed it.