Summary: The Satipatthana Sutta is the Buddha’s practice-oriented teaching on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. On the audio program Mindfulness: Six Guided Practices for Awakening, master teacher Joseph Goldstein offers six guided meditations based on this profound teaching of the Buddha. In this excerpt selected by Sounds True producer Randy Roark, Joseph illuminates the importance of these meditations, and explains how easy and effortless it is to follow them on what the Buddha called “the direct path to liberation.”
