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This podcast consists of Dharma talks given by Bhikkhu Cintita of the Sitagu Monastery in Austin, TX. Each talk illuminates some aspect of the Buddha's teachings. Bhikkhu Cintita (or "BC") is an American-born, Burmese-ordained monk in the Theravada tradition and a former Zen priest. Before that he was a professor and corporate researcher in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. He has written five books on Buddhism and is always working on another.
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Right proficiency
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We will see that sammāsati (what others call “right mindfulness”) is the application of the satipatthana method for achieving and acquiring virtuosity in the other path practices. (The Satipatthana Method 4, 6/2/2023)

Friday May 26, 2023
Training in the satipattana method
Friday May 26, 2023
Friday May 26, 2023
We look at how the application to everyday, non-Dhammic practices are utilized for training in the Buddhist art of skillfulness itself. (The Satipatthana Method 3, 5/26/2023)

Friday May 19, 2023
Proficiency-comprehension
Friday May 19, 2023
Friday May 19, 2023
Proficiency-comprehension (satisampajañña) is a ubiquitous human cognitive faculty that is developed and cultivated to become the satipaṭṭhāna method. (The Satipatthana Method 2, 5/19/2023)

Friday May 12, 2023
The satipatthana method
Friday May 12, 2023
Friday May 12, 2023
The satipatthana method is the art of skillfulness enumerated in the Satipatthana Sutta, but applicable in many diverse practice contexts. (The Satipatthana Method 1, 5/12/2023)

Friday May 05, 2023
How ”mindfulness” ended up with that label
Friday May 05, 2023
Friday May 05, 2023
If not sati, what is it we think we experience when we practice “mindfulness”? (How “Mindfulness” got Mislabeled 3, 5/5/2023)

Friday Apr 28, 2023
How the original meaning of ‘mindfulness’ got lost
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Friday Apr 28, 2023
The development of vipassanā as a mass meditation movement beginning in Burma resulted in some serious Dhammic shortcuts that marginalized the original meaning of sati. (Mislabeled 2, 4/28/2023)

Friday Apr 21, 2023
How ”mindfulness” got mislabeled.
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
There is a huge disconnect between our modern understanding of "minfulness" and the Pali word sati that 'mindfulness' was supposed to translate. (How "Mindulness got Mislabeled 1, 4/21/2023)

Friday Apr 14, 2023
Back in the USA
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Friday Apr 14, 2023
A monk is an anomaly in the Wild West of Buddhism, and so ends this narrative. (Through the Looking Glass 12, 4/14/2023)

Friday Apr 07, 2023
A monk’s requisites
Friday Apr 07, 2023
Friday Apr 07, 2023
Cloth management and alms for the new bhikkhu. (Through the Looking Glass 11, 4/7/2023)

Friday Mar 31, 2023
Bhikkhu Cintita gets his name
Friday Mar 31, 2023
Friday Mar 31, 2023
I ordain as a bhikkhu, March 10, 2009, with unexpected pomp in Central Burma. (Through the Looking Glass 10, 3/31/2023)