225: Back to the Basics of the Practice
From Mindfulness Insight Meditation - Buddhist Teachings by Satipatthana Meditation Society of Canada
March 4, 2026 · 23 min · Season 6 · Episode 48
About this episode
The episode explores the foundations of Buddhist practice through the Five Aggregates and the Four Foundations of Mindfulness.
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...
Topics covered
- Buddhist practice
- Five Aggregates
- Four Foundations of Mindfulness
- self
- mindfulness
Keywords
- Buddhism
- mindfulness
- self
- Five Aggregates
- Four Foundations of Mindfulness
- meditation
- spirituality
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Satipatthana Meditation Society of Canada
Books & works: Five Aggregates, Four Foundations of Mindfulness
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