Ep. 230 – The Factors of Awakening, Satipatthana Sutta Series Pt. 27
Jan 3, 2025
Dive into the exploration of the seven factors of awakening and their transformative power! Discover how mindfulness serves as an essential anti-hindrance against mental delusions. The concepts of hiri and otapa highlight the importance of moral discernment. Personal anecdotes illuminate the essence of bare attention and clear comprehension. Learn how these practices enhance awareness and guide ethical conduct, paving the way for liberation from suffering. Engage with wisdom that invites reflection and practical applications for a balanced life.
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Seven Factors of Awakening
The seven awakening factors, unique to Buddha's teachings, counteract delusion.
These factors are mindfulness, investigation, energy, rapture, calm, concentration, and equanimity.
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Cultivating Awakening Factors
Cultivate the seven factors of awakening to overcome suffering.
The Buddha emphasizes their importance for liberation.
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Working with Awakening Factors
Observe if an awakening factor is present.
Learn how to cultivate it if present or create conditions for its arising if absent.
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The Dhammapada is a Buddhist scripture that distills the complex teachings of the Buddha into concise, crystalline verses. It is part of the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. The text includes various chapters that cover themes such as earnestness, thought, the nature of the fool and the wise man, and the path to enlightenment. It emphasizes the importance of controlling one's thoughts and actions to achieve happiness and avoid suffering. The verses are traditionally believed to have been spoken by the Buddha on various occasions and are accompanied by commentaries that provide context and stories to illustrate the teachings[1][2][4].
Samyutta Nikaya
Samyutta Nikaya
The Grouped Discourses
The Buddha
The Samyutta Nikaya is the third division of the Sutta Pitaka, one of the 'three baskets' of Theravada Buddhism's Pali Tipitaka. It contains 2,889 suttas organized into five divisions (vaggas), each further divided into samyuttas that group suttas on related topics. The text covers various aspects of Buddhist teachings, including the six sense bases, the five aggregates, and the Eightfold Path. It is considered one of the earliest layers of the Early Buddhist Texts (EBTs)[2][3][4].
The Way of Mindfulness: The Satipatthana Sutta
The Way of Mindfulness: The Satipatthana Sutta
The Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness
Ven. Soma Thera
Dhammapala
Buddhaghosa
This book contains the Satipatthana Sutta, a foundational Buddhist text on mindfulness meditation, along with its commentary by Buddhaghosa and selections from the sub-commentary by Dhammapala. It outlines the methodical cultivation of mindfulness as taught by the Buddha, focusing on four foundations: the body, feelings, the mind, and dhammas (Buddhist teachings). The text is a detailed guide for practitioners aiming to achieve insight and liberation through vipassana meditation.
Outlining the crucial importance of the Buddha’s seven awakening factors, Joseph explains the promise of our practice.
The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the twenty-seventh part of an in-depth 48-part weekly lecture series from Joseph Goldstein that delves into every aspect of the Satipatthana Sutta. If you are just now jumping into the Satipatthana Sutta series, listen to Insight Hour Ep. 203 to follow along and get the full experience!
This week on Insight Hour, Joseph provides wisdom on:
The seven treasures, or factors of awakening, of the Buddha
How the factors of awakening act as anti-hindrances
Mindfulness, wisdom, energy, rapture, calm, concentration, and equanimity
The promise and purpose of our practice
Priming the pump of the enlightened mind
A deeper dive into the first factor of awakening: mindfulness
Calling to mind what is skillful and what is not
Bare attention and clear comprehension
Knowing the purpose behind an action, and if it is beneficial
Grab a copy of the book Joseph references throughout this series, Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization, HERE
“The Buddha called these factors anti-hindrances because they counteract those forces in the mind that keep us in delusion. It’s sort of like anti-freeze; anti-hindrances, they keep our minds from getting congealed or frozen.“– Joseph Goldstein
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