Four Foundations: Fourth Foundation
Date: 2023-08-03 Thursday
For this session we’ll be exploring the fourth foundation of mindfulness, which is dhammas, sometimes translated as “’mind objects.”
This is a multi-part foundation, which can seem complex, so we’ll be focusing on what difference this fourth foundation can make in our hearts and minds. While in one way this fourth foundation can seem as a “list of lists,” in another it empowers us to find release, an open heart, just in the complexities that life inherently offers us.
Yes, this 2023 life is complex, but actually the essentials are just as they were 2,600 years ago at the time of the Buddha, and clarifying that helps bring us freedom now.
The four foundation of mindfulness are the Buddha’s core teaching on our practice of mindfulness, in the Satipatthana Sutta, #10 in the Middle Length Discourses (Majjhima Nikaya.) This sutta is an ever-revealing source of understanding, as we gradually deepen our mindfulness of all phenomena, and gain insight from that.
Click here to listen to or download the talk on the Seattle Insight page.