Wild Heart Meditation Center

In this episode Mikey Noechel offers a talk on the first foundation of mindfulness, mindfulness of the body. He presents  specifically what is outlined in the Satipatthana Sutta. First foundation of mindfulness:  Thus have I heard.At one time the Blessed One was living in the Kurus, at Kammasadamma, a market-town of the Kuru people.Then the Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus as follows: "This is the only way, O bhikkhus, for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrow and lamentation, for the destruction of suffering and grief, for reaching the right path, for the attainment of Nibbana, namely, the Four Arousings of Mindfulness."THE FOUR AROUSINGS OF MINDFULNESS"What are the four?"Here, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu lives contemplating the body in the body, ardent, clearly comprehending (it) and mindful (of it), having overcome, in this world, covetousness and grief; he lives contemplating the feelings in the feelings, ardent, clearly comprehending (them) and mindful (of them), having overcome, in this wor