Sound + Mindfulness Meditation Practices : Force For Good 2016 | 4/20/2018

Satipatthana Sutta : Sound + Mindfulness Meditation Practices with Mark Epstein M.D. Force For Good 2016  at Tibet House US in New York City

In this short video Mark Epstein M.D. gives an introduction to the “Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta” providing the history and relationship between the different Buddhist mindfulness meditation traditions.

This is an excerpt from the archive video of the February 2016 teaching on the ‘Satipatthana Sutta’ (also known as the Discourse on the Establishing Mindfulness in the Pali Cannon) with Mark Epstein M.D. from the Force For Good Class Series, recorded at Tibet House US in New York City.

In the fill video Dr. Epstein uses Anālayo’s English translation of “Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization” Dr Mark Epstein leads a discussion of vipassana meditation + the relationship between Buddhist mindfulness and modern psychotherapy.

Sound is a good object of meditation because we generally do not try to control it as much as we do other things.  People often have a more difficult time setting into their bodies than they do paying attention to the sounds that appear naturally. Just listen & try to let whatever sounds are around pass through you. Listen in 360 degrees, to the sounds and the silences that interrupt them.

Notice when your mind identifies the sound as a car or a baby or a bird or the television, when the concept of what is making the sound replaces the actual physical sensation of the sound striking your eardrum. Notice when you like something & when you do not and how this changes the way you listen. We tend to move away from a continuous direct experience of our senses into a mental reaction to, or representation of, them.

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This talk was recorded during the 2016 Force For Good Class Series at Tibet House US in New York City.

A Force For Good’ is a Tibet House US course to further the Dalai Lama’s contemporary world initiatives, from His Holiness’ American Institute of Buddhist Studies and Mind & Life Institute science dialogues (Universe in a Single Atom) and His creation of Abhidharma 2.0 through the “Science for Monks” programs, his “secular ethics” (Ethics for the New Millennium and Beyond Religion), His nonviolent approach to conflict resolution, including His Nobel Peace Laureate activities to seek dialogue and a win-win reconciliation with China in the face of the ongoing ethnicidal policies in Tibet (Freedom in Exile and Man of Peace: The Illustrated Life Story of Tibet’s Dalai Lama) & along with his emphasis on positive activism (A New Reality: Charter of Universal Responsibility).

Satipatthana Sutta : Sound + Mindfulness Meditation Practices with Mark Epstein M.D. Force For Good 2016 at Tibet House US in New York CityTo watch the full video “Satipatthana Sutta : Vipassana, Mindfulness & Therapy with Mark Epstein M.D. Force For Good 2016” (1:52:18) please visit the Tibet House US Archives at www.tibethouse.us.

To join the on-going #ForceForGood series please visit: www.tibethouse.us.

To watch more videos from past ‘Force for Good’ programs please visit the Tibet House US Member Archive, available to monthly supporters.

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? Music by Tenzin Choegyal, Used with Permission www.tenzinchoegyal.com
? Satipatthana Sutta Photo by David Gabriel Fischer via Zen Diary.

About Mark Epstein, M.D

Mark Epstein, M.D. is a psychiatrist in New York City and the author of a number of books about the interface of Buddhism & psychotherapy, including Thoughts without a Thinker, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart, Going on Being, Open to Desire, Psychotherapy without the Self & The Trauma of Everyday Life. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University and is currently Clinical Assistant Professor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University.

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