55 - The Four Foundations Of Mindfulness

Secular Buddhism

Noah Rasheta

Society & Culture, Spirituality, Secular, Mindfulness, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Buddhism, Meditation

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Developing the four foundations of mindfulness helps us to remove the conceptual constructs that often blind us from seeing reality as it is. Imagine being able to see things as they really are, free from our ideas and concepts. This is the very liberation we refer to as "enlightenment". In this episode, I will discuss the four foundations of mindfulness and how each foundation can help us to gain more clarity and understanding about the nature of reality.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism Podcast.
0:06.0	This is episode number 55.
0:08.4	I am your host, Noah Rochetta, and today I'm talking about the four foundations of mindfulness.
0:24.8	As you may know, mindfulness is one of the most basic practices of Buddhism.
0:30.2	It's one of the spokes of the eightfold path.
0:32.8	I talked about the eightfold path a little bit, and episode number 41, Life on the Buddhist
0:37.7	Path.
0:39.0	And mindfulness in general is just a really hot topic right now.
0:42.4	I believe it was time magazine, not long ago, that had a cover that said mindfulness has
0:48.0	gone mainstream.
0:49.9	A lot of people are interested in mindfulness, and although many of them may not be interested
0:55.3	at all in any of the other aspects of Buddhist practice.
0:59.9	Mindfulness practice is starting to overlap a lot with therapeutic practices that you
1:05.0	see in psychology.
1:07.6	And while many people associate mindfulness with meditation, there's really a lot more
1:13.0	to it than just meditation.
1:15.3	In fact, the Buddha taught that we should practice mindfulness at all times, not just while
1:20.5	meditating.
1:22.0	And the reason mindfulness is such a skillful practice is because through mindfulness,
1:27.1	through awareness, we can learn to perceive the nature of reality, the nature of things
1:32.1	being interdependent and impermanent, and to see reality in this proper perspective helps
1:38.5	us to cut through delusions and unhealthy attachments or clinging.
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