Becoming Buddha Spring Retreat Talk 4 May 18 2018 Anapanasati Sutta

This is a recording of the fourth session from our Becoming Buddha Foundations Of Mindfulness And Meditation Spring 2018 Retreat at Won Dharma Center on May 18, 2018.

My talk and our Sangha discussion is on the Anapanasati Sutta. In this sutta the Buddha's uses the example of senior teaching monks to show how to apply meditation and mindfulness to a complete Dhamma practice. It is not  instruction for meditation. It is instruction on what an informed Dhamma teacher teaches and, by omission, what they avoid. The mindfulness of a Buddha is to be mindful of what is present and, as important, what is not present. This sutta is a description of how to incorporate meditation and mindfulness within an authentic Dhamma practice. By maintaining the focus presented here one avoids the frivolous embellishments to meditation and mindfulness that has developed since the Buddha’s passing.

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Thank You. Peace.