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title: "Part 5 · 21 Days of Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna — The Four Foundations of Mindfulness (in production)"
description: "Body, feelings, mind and dhammas, carried into daily life. Twenty-one days. Part 5 of the Vipassana.life course, in production."
url: https://vipassana.life/course/part-5-mahasatipatthana/
lang: en
author: Ocean DYNN
site: Vipassana.Life
modified: 2026-09-23
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# 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.

[Before you begin, read the safety page.](https://vipassana.life/safety/)

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