සතර සතිපට්ටාන – Four Sathipattana Meditation

පහත දැක්වෙන වීඩියෝ පෙල සවනට සිසිල වෙබ් අඩවිය ඔස්සේ විකාශනය කල වැඩසටහන් පෙලකින් සැකසූවකි.  ඉන් පසුව දැක්වෙන්නේ Yutthha-Dhammo හිමියන් විසින් දේශනා කල ධර්ම කරුනු රැගත් වැඩසටහන් පෙලකි.

 

 

This video is a recording from a program conducted by Yuttadhammo Thero explaining and introducing four basic ways of how the mind should be kept focused (sathara sathipattana) to children. Though the focused group is a group of children, instructions are good for any age.

 

Meditation is like cleaning your house.

You have to clean again and again. Once you purify your mind it is natural for the unattended mind to become impurified over the time, unless it is in a state that it is not falling apart from that purified state. Like a home you have to attempt and clean the mind again and again to keep it tidy and well so you can live.

With practice your mind will come to a state that it will not get any impurifications any more.

There are 5 benefits of Meditation:

1. Path of purification
   1. https://youtu.be/HnW_Kg3FCYA?t=2m32s
   2. Mind has many impurifications. When we practice meditation we are going to cleanse them.
   3. Identify the causes of suffering, impurities.
   4. When we cleanse these impurities our mind becomes clear, bright and useful.
   5. Mind will not suffer a loss, pain or sadness and will not greed at happiness.
   6. You don’t to wander, fantasize, wish you were someone else etc.
   7. Your life is a pure life, a happy life.
2. Overcome mental sickness
   1. https://youtu.be/HnW_Kg3FCYA?t=4m45s
   2. Meditation is the remedy for many psychological problems like stress, depression, insomnia, anxiety, tension, uncontrollable worrying, irritability distractitbility and difficulty in learning.(see: Psychological Disorders)
   3. Once you train your mind it is a place to live.
   4. Medicine can only suppress or cover up pains temporarily.
   5. Bodily well being will be better and convenient as well.
   6. Healthy mind will understand the reality that its okay to feel the pain, you will see it as a part of having and keeping a human body.
   7. When you understand the reality, the way you take on what matters to you becomes more clear and will be easier to live with.
3. Realize that we can overcome all suffering of life
   1. https://youtu.be/HnW_Kg3FCYA?t=7m14s
   2. You can overcome the problem of suffering.
   3. Path which leads to the end of the problem, end of suffering.
   4. Escaping pains – what is the role of drugs.
   5. Using a thorn to remove a thorn doubles the pain.
   6. When you practice meditation you train yourself to see the pain as it is.
   7. Two kinds of suffering.
      1. Mental Suffering
      2. Bodily Suffering
   8. You realize you can overcome the pain by understanding the pain/suffering as it is, in its true form.
4. Path to overcome suffering
   1. https://youtu.be/HnW_Kg3FCYA?t=11m30s
   2. Three important things:
      1. Morality
         1. Your mind is careful in everything you do
         2. You are not acting in a way that hurt other beings
      2. Concentration
         1. Keeping mind in focus
      3. Wisdom
         1. Understand the things the way they are
         2. Mind is a tool
5. Reach complete freedom from suffering
   1. https://youtu.be/HnW_Kg3FCYA?t=14m15s
   2. Get relieved from samsara – the endless journey of suffering.
   3. We should reach complete freedom from suffering.
   4. This the ultimate goal of the suffering.
   5. Nirvana

 

ඒකායන මග්ග – One way

https://youtu.be/HnW_Kg3FCYA?t=15m

There is only one way.

There is only one straight path.

This is the four foundations of the Sathi Pattana (සති පට්ටාන)

Sathi pattana means the four parts of the reality.

 

Mind is like a monkey.

https://youtu.be/HnW_Kg3FCYA?t=15m34s

 

Mind jumps into four trees and lives in one of them at any given time. This is because its not trained. Once trained mind can be set to be focused and kept in once place.

 

කායානු පස්සනා – Focus on Body

Focus on Rising and falling of Stomach with your breath.

Focus on Rising

Focus on Falling

https://youtu.be/HnW_Kg3FCYA?t=20m30s

 

වේදනානු පස්සනා – Focus on Pains and sensations of the Body

When you meditate you will feel pains, sensations, happiness, sadness etc.

Focus on pain, pain, pain

Focus on happiness, happy, happy…

https://youtu.be/HnW_Kg3FCYA?t=25m5s

 

චිත්තානු පස්සනා – Focus on Mind, Thoughts

https://youtu.be/HnW_Kg3FCYA?t=29m8s

 

ධම්මානු පස්සනා – Focus on Dhamma / Teachings

Mind is full of hindrances, full of obstacles

https://youtu.be/HnW_Kg3FCYA?t=29m50s

 

Liking, Disliking, drowsiness, distraction,

We are not going to judge the feeling but we going to see as it comes.

We are not following, not encouraging, not fighting with that.

 

These instructions were given on Sathara Sathipattana by Bikku Yutta Dhammo.

Yutta Dhammo Thero has travelled Vancouver, Western Canada several times and have conducted several retreat programs for the benefit of devotees of all ages. There are several good apps for authored

Website: https://yuttadhammo.sirimangalo.org/