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Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings
Mindfulness Insight meditation (Satipatthana Vipassana) and Buddhist teachings/Dhamma Talks as taught through the Theravada Buddhism tradition. Sayar Myat gives Dhamma talks on teachings of the Buddha as well as instructions on Pure Vipassana meditation as prescribed by the Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw.
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- Buddhism chart
- #159
- Episodes
- 237
- Releases
- Every two weeks
- Typical length
- 30 min
- On air since
- 2020
- Latest episode
- 2 weeks ago
Episodes
237 episodes, newest first
- 26 min
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41 min
238: Predominance and Vipassana
Season 6, Episode 61
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30 min
237: Four Predominance (Adhipati)
Season 6, Episode 60
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36 min
236: Sixteen Conditions that Soils the Mind
Season 6, Episode 59
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27 min
235: Doors- Consciousness and Vipassana
Season 6, Episode 58
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35 min
234: Loving-Kindness Meditation (Metta Kamathana)
Season 6, Episode 57
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31 min
233: Objects and Conditioned Consciousness (Aramana and Citta)
Season 6, Episode 56
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33 min
232: Functions/Jobs of Consciousness (Kicca)
Season 6, Episode 55
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42 min
231: The Sixteen Dreams of King Pasenadi of Kosala
Season 6, Episode 54
Show notes
A unique Dhamma talk describing the Buddha's interpretation of sixteen dreams of King Pasenadi and what it holds for the future, specifically starting 2500 years later, in the very time that we currently live.
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32 min
230: Kamma of Speech (Vaci Kamma)
Season 6, Episode 53
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29 min
229: Root and Insight (Hetu and Vipassana)
Season 6, Episode 52
Show notes
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28 min
228: Root (Hetu)
Season 6, Episode 51
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30 min
227: An Explanation of the Right Understanding
Season 6, Episode 50
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30 min
226: Walking Meditation and Insight
Season 6, Episode 49
Show notes
The practice of walking meditation is explored as a powerful method for developing Vipassana insight. By mindfully observing each step—lifting, pushing, and dropping—the meditator begins to notice the intentions in the mind that give rise to physical actions. Through careful observation, the relationship between mind and matter becomes clear: intention is the cause, and bodily movement is the effect.
As mindfulness deepens, practitioners may experience the subtle arising and passing of movements, revealing the fundamental characteristics of existence—impermanence (anicca), suffering (dukkha), and non-self (anatta). Walking meditation becomes a practical way to cultivate insight, accumulate wholesome merit through mental development, and gradually free the mind from delusion and defilements.
This teaching encourages meditators not to underestimate walking meditation, showing how even simple mindful steps can open the path toward wisdom and liberation.
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23 min
225: Back to the Basics of the Practice
Season 6, Episode 48
Show notes
We return to the foundations of Buddhist practice by exploring the Five Aggregates — material form (rupa), feeling (vedana), perception (sanna), mental formations (sankhara), and consciousness (vinnana) — the components that make up what we call the “self.” From this understanding, we examine how the Four Foundations of Mindfulness arise: mindfulness of body, feeling, mind, and Dhamma.
The talk emphasizes that whichever object becomes most prominent — body, feeling, or mind — can serve as the doorway to insight. With steady mindfulness, supported by effort and concentration, wisdom gradually develops. Like polishing a tarnished brass bowl, repeated and continuous practice removes layers of defilement accumulated over countless lives.
Through persistent cultivation of the Noble Eightfold Path, each moment of precise mindfulness becomes a stroke of the paddle carrying us across the ocean of samsara toward Nibbana. A practical reminder of what truly matters in the journey of insight meditation.
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31 min
224: Mahanama Sutta: Practicing While Being a Lay Buddhist
Season 6, Episode 47
Show notes
In this episode, we explore the Mahanama Sutta, where King Mahanama asks the Buddha how laypeople can find stability and peace in the midst of a chaotic, worry-filled world. The Buddha responds by teaching the importance of cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties: faith, effort, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom. With these as a foundation, one can practice the Six Recollections — reflecting on the qualities of the Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha, morality, generosity, and the virtues of celestial beings.
Through these practices, the mind becomes free from greed, anger, and delusion, giving rise to joy, calm, happiness, and concentration. This teaching offers a practical path for busy everyday people to live with steadiness and inner peace while walking the path toward liberation.
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28 min
223: About Feeling
Season 6, Episode 46
Show notes
In this talk, we explore Vedana (feeling) as a key mental factor in Buddhist meditation and daily life. The teacher explains how feelings arise as pleasant, unpleasant, neutral, and how they are classified in different ways in the teachings of the Buddha. By learning to observe feelings with mindfulness, listeners discover how to prevent craving and aversion, understand impermanence, and break the cycle of suffering through Satipatthana Vipassana practice.
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24 min
222: Non-self, No Soul in Daily Life
Season 6, Episode 45
Show notes
In this talk, we explore the Buddhist teaching of Anattā (non-self) as it appears in everyday life. Through simple examples like eating, seeing, aging, and thinking, the speaker explains how mind and body function through cause and effect rather than a permanent “self” or soul. Listeners are encouraged to observe daily experiences mindfully to develop a direct, experiential understanding of non-self and deepen their meditation practice.
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30 min
221: Forty Supramundane Consciousness
Season 6, Episode 44
Show notes
In this talk, we explore the forty types of supramundane (lokuttara) consciousness and how they arise through insight meditation. The teacher explains the relationship between jhāna, path consciousness, and fruition consciousness, showing how different meditation approaches can lead to the same stages of awakening. By understanding these mental processes, listeners gain insight into non-self (anattā) and learn how Buddhist psychology supports deep mindfulness and spiritual development.
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24 min
220: Noble Persons and Mental Defilements (Ariya and Kilesa)
Season 6, Episode 43
Show notes
In this talk, we explore the relationship between Noble Persons (Ariya) and Mental Defilements (Kilesa) in Theravāda Buddhism. Using the framework of the ten fetters, the teaching explains how each of the four stages of enlightenment—Stream-Enterer, Once-Returner, Non-Returner, and Arahant—progressively eradicates or weakens specific defilements.
The episode clarifies which fetters are abandoned at each stage, how moral purity and insight deepen, and why only the Arahant fully uproots all unwholesome consciousness. A practical and illuminating guide for understanding one’s spiritual progress on the path to liberation.
Website:
www.satipatthana.ca
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