53 min
Talk
How Mindfulness Creates Understanding
A talk recorded for The Buddhist TV on why noting is meant to produce insight and not calm.
About the teacher
Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu
Canadian Theravada monk, born Noah Greenspoon in Ontario, who studied Pali and Sanskrit in Canada and was ordained in Chiang Mai in 2001 under Ajaan Tong Sirimangalo, in the lineage of Mahasi Sayadaw. He has taught intensive meditation since 2003, answers questions online in the long-running Ask a Monk series, and built the Digital Pali Reader used by students and translators of the canon.
Upcoming events
Meet Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu in person.
Talks, day programmes and retreats currently listed in the Paths Are Many calendar.
Talks & videos
Watch before you attend.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
55 min
Meditation
Guided Meditation on the Four Noble Truths
Close to an hour, led rather than explained, with the four truths as the frame.
36 min
Talk
Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation
The Mahasi approach of noting, taught step by step: walking, sitting and the rest of the day.
26 min
Talk
Beginning Meditation
The plainest possible account of how to start, from a monk who has answered the question thousands of times.
Path
The wider context.
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Theravada & Insight
Early Buddhist monastic traditions alongside the modern Insight movement, related, but kept distinct in the underlying data.
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