James Baraz: Clear Comprehension: The Buddha's Teaching on Four Different Elements of Practice

07/04/2022 48 min
James Baraz: Clear Comprehension: The Buddha's Teaching on Four Different Elements of Practice

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(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk explores the topic of Clear Comprehension (sampajañña in Pali) a powerful Dharma teaching on four different aspects of practice. In the Satipatthana Sutta the Discourse on the Four Foundation of Mindfulness, with regard to each foundation, the Buddha says the following: "Here, bhikkhus (practitioners), a bhikkhu (practitioner) lives contemplating the body in the body, ardent, clearly comprehending and mindful, having overcome, in this world, covetousness and grief..."
Clear comprehension means more than just having bare attention. Understanding and applying these four facets of Clear Comprehension can support a real deepening of our Dharma practice.

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