Ep342: Ānāpānassati - Dhammarato
Dhammarato guides us through the Ānāpānassatisutta, a much loved scripture which describes Buddhism’s famous breath meditation practice.
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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.
00:00 - Intro
00:52 - Various breathing meditations
02:28 - MN 118: Ānāpānassatisutta - about the sutta
04:58 - 4 foundations of mindfulness
05:37 - Factors of Enlightenment
06:39 - Mistaken readings of the sutta
08:01 - Critique of loving kindness meditation
10:12 - Sitting meditation vs ānāpānassati
11:22 - Sati vs loving kindness meditation and recalling past lives
13:00 - Right noble looking
13:55 - Entering the first jhana and gladdening the mind
17:19 - Victim attitude
19:31 - How to make the body comfortable
22:36 - The skill of developing sukha, satisfaction
26:02 - Thoughts, feelings, and body are interrelated
27:35 - Ānāpānassati is not a breathing meditation
28:42 - Pragmatic Dharma vs Engaged Buddhism
30:25 - How to apply ānāpānassati
33:27 - The first step of nobility
36:22 - A feeling of success
39:14 - Attaining knowledge and deliverance
41:58 - Common jhana practice mistakes
46:52 - Loving kindness meditation mistakes
51:50 - Metta is a consequence not a practice
53:06 - Vipassanā vs samatha
57:10 - Explaining other Buddhist masters’ enlightenments
59:23 - Comments on Ajahn Chah and correct practice
01:01:53 - Working with pain and sickness
01:03:06 - Cancer and meditation
01:05:31 - Dhammarato’s aging and health
01:06:03 - Criticism of Goenka and sitting through pain
01:07:11 - Magical thinking of sitting through pain
01:08:28 - Advice for approaching death
01:10:53 - Dhammarato reflects on the deaths of his loved ones
01:13:37 - How to die happy
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Read the Ānāpānassatisutta:
https://suttacentral.net/mn118/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin