History

Vipassana Sadhana Sansthan

Vipassana Meditation As Taught By S. N. Goenka
in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin

The village in which the Dhammapatthana Centre is the historic place where the Buddha gave his famous discourse on Mahasatipatthana. The ancient name of this village was Kammasadamma, which used to be a market-town in the land of the Kurus.

The practice of satipatthana was very popular in ancient India. It is on record in a Pali text that there was a time when in the land of the Kurus even servants and ordinary workers used to practice satipatthana as a matter of habit. Even ladies coming to fetch water from drinking water wells would enquire from each other about the progress made in the practice of this technique of meditation.

WHAT IS SATIPATTHANA?

Observing body within body
Observing sensations within sensations
Observing mind within mind
Observing mental contents within mental contents

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENT OF SATIPATTHANA

Abide ardent with right awareness and constant thorough understanding of impermanence (atapi sampajano satima)

Buddha's sayings on Satipatthana