This eleven week course focuses on the last two foundations of mindfulness outlined by the Buddha. With mindfulness of the mind and mental qualities, the Buddha invites us to notice whether the mind is with or without greed, with or without anger, and with or without delusion. We learn to discern the qualities of the mind in any moment; contracted, distracted, open and or settled. Learning to acknowledge the shape of the mind is the first step toward freeing the mind from the weight of attachment. In these teachings the Buddha encourages us to study the mind in terms of skillful frames that illuminate the moment to moment skillfulness or unskillfulness of the mind’s activity.
Audio
- 2016 Meditations and Talks
- 2021 Meditations and Talks
- Guided Meditation – Mindfulness of Mind, Satipatthana Meditatation with Bhikkhu Analayo
Study Resources
- Meeting your thoughts at a resting place By Jason Siff
- Chapter 8, Difficult Problems and Insistent Visitors in Jack Kornfield’s book, Path with Heart
- Venerable Analayo’s chapter on Mindfulness of the Mind
- Foundations of Mindfulness: Satipatthana Sutta Translated by Nyanasatta Thera
- Mindfulness Defined by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
- Mindfulness of Mind States by Phillip Jones
- Mindfulness of Mind talk #13 by Joseph Goldstein
- Mindfulness of Thinking by Phillip Jones
- Notes from Joseph Goldstien’s Satipatthana Sutta talk #13, Mindfulness of the Mind written by Mark Young
- The Four Foundations of Mindfulness overview by Ajahan Punnadhammo
- The Four Frames of Reference pt. 2 from Wings to Awakening, by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
- The Removal of Distracting Thoughts by Vitakka-Santhana Sutta, Translated by Soma Thera
- The Way of Mindfulness by The Satipatthana Sutta and Its Commentary Soma Thera
- Third Foundation: Contemplation of Mind, by Bhikkhu Bodhi
- The Buddha’s third foundation of Mindfulness–mindfulness of the mind, Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (pronouns modified)
- Taking Responsibility for Our Thoughts: Reflections on the Vitakkasanthana Sutta, by Mark W. Muesse
- What is Papañca?, by Andrew Olendzki
- Tangled in Thought: How to beat your mind at its own game, By Kittisaro, Tricycle, WINTER 2014
- Comments from Sayadaw U Tejaniya on Thinking
- MN 19, Dvedhavitakka Sutta: Two Sorts of Thinking, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu