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In this episode, I am once again joined by Dhammarato: a lineage teacher in the Thai Buddhist tradition who is known for his unique, 1-1 teaching conversations conducted with students online.
Dhammarato guides us through the Ānāpānassatisutta, a much loved scripture which describes Buddhism’s famous breath meditation practice.
Dhammarato describes the technique in detail, challenges common misconceptions about this practice and the sutta, and explains how the whole Buddhist path is contained within it.
Dhammarato also argues that loving kindness meditations and remembering past lives are not Buddhist practices, addresses jhana and other meditation practice mistakes, and reflects on the fruits of his own practice when faced with illness and physical pain.
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Video version: guruviking.com/podcast/ep342-npnassati-dhammar…
Also available on Youtube, iTunes, & Spotify – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast’.
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Topics Include:
- Intro
- Various breathing meditations
- MN 118: Ānāpānassatisutta - about the sutta
- 4 foundations of mindfulness
- Factors of Enlightenment
- Mistaken readings of the sutta
- Critique of loving kindness meditation
- Sitting meditation vs ānāpānassati
- Sati vs loving kindness meditation and recalling past lives
- Right noble looking
- Entering the first jhana and gladdening the mind
- Victim attitude
- How to make the body comfortable
- The skill of developing sukha, satisfaction
- Thoughts, feelings, and body are interrelated
- Ānāpānassati is not a breathing meditation
- Pragmatic Dharma vs Engaged Buddhism
- How to apply ānāpānassati
- The first step of nobility
- A feeling of success
- Attaining knowledge and deliverance
- Common jhana practice mistakes
- Loving kindness meditation mistakes
- Metta is a consequence not a practice
- Vipassanā vs samatha
- Explaining other Buddhist masters’ enlightenments
- Comments on Ajahn Chah and correct practice
- Working with pain and sickness
- Cancer and meditation
- Dhammarato’s aging and health
- Criticism of Goenka and sitting through pain
- Magical thinking of sitting through pain
- Advice for approaching death
- Dhammarato reflects on the deaths of his loved ones
- How to die happy
Dhammarato Episode Playlist
- guruviking.com/search?q=DHAMMARATO
To find out more about Dhammarato, visit:
- Email: dhammaratog@gmail.com
- Discord: discord.gg/epphTGY
- dhammaratoblog.wordpress.com
- youtube.com/channel/UCjxg5GJFsRqnS-YLTzyrjLQ
Read the Ānāpānassatisutta:
- suttacentral.net/mn118/en/sujato?lang=en&l…
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For more interviews, videos, and more visit.
- www.guruviking.com
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Music ‘Deva Dasi’ by Steve James
