4th Satipatthana: Dealing with hindrances for children (and adults), practice

For the introduction, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALkyz...

This part of the fourth Satipatthana: http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/....

We go through the five hindrances, and try antidote for each.
1) Worldly desire:

i) Specific desires:

If the desire is for an attractive body, practice the body scan ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd9W9... ), focusing on that part of Gotama’s list liable to quell desire (e.g. middle section on fluids), or mediation on bodily decay ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAB1u... ).

If the desire is for food, practice meditation on the repulsiveness of foods: Consider the food you desire going into your mouth and how it is chewed – if spat out, that’s how it is, as you immediately enjoy consuming it; the food in your stomach – if vomited out, that’s how it is when just swallowed; the food in your intestines with bile, and finally in your bowels – that is the food as it becomes. Is it desirable? The point is not to make food repulsive, but to be an antidote to craving for food that disrupts meditation.

ii) In general:

Meditate on how if you got what you desired it would not be fully satisfying- if you had it you would want something else; then be aware of how the present moment of meditating (on breath etc) is as perfect as it could be (e.g. fourth quartet, anapanasati: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4xIX... ).




2) Ill will/aversion

i) Brahmaviharas (loving-kindness meditations ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j0Kb... ):

If you feel like harming someone, practice kindness meditation to that person ;

If you feel joy in someone’s suffering, practice compassion meditation to that person;

If you feel upset by someone’s joy, practice sympathetic joy meditation to that person.



ii) Impermanence of pleasant and unpleasant feelings:

If the ill will is based on clinging to a pleasant feeling, mediate on the impermanence of the pleasant feeling; if the ill will is based on avoiding an unpleasant feeling, mediate on the impermanence of the unpleasant feeling.




3) Doubt

Notice skillful states (of the Brahma viharas (kindness and compassion), concentration, and mindfulness), and the joy that arises from each; notice worldly states and that they never quite satisfy.

Think of someone you know and admire who often is skillful. Visualize them as being skillful.




4) Lack of energy and sleepiness

i) Open rather than close the eyes. Pinch your ears. Splash cold water on your face. Do some exercise. Imagine bright light or have the lights on.

ii) Try standing rather than seated meditation, or especially walking meditation.

iii) Meditate on the impermanence of the apparent pleasant feeling of doing nothing; or of an unpleasant feeling of something you are avoiding by doing nothing.


5) Restlessness and worry

i) Restlessness arises from perceiving the current moment as unpleasant or some other situation as more pleasant. Meditate on how the wished for pleasant feeling would be impermanent and unsatisfactory; how the current moment is as perfect as it could be.

If restlessness is caused by distraction from people or noises around, be mindful of the distraction and see it as part of the experience that includes your current mediation object. A very useful meditation for dealing with life; be grateful for the source of the distraction!

ii) Worry may arise from clinging to something that may disappear; practice letting go of the clinging (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4xIX... 4th quartet).

If the worry is based on avoiding an unpleasant feeling, mediate on the impermanence of the unpleasant feeling: Consider the situation worried about with equanimity; realize the unsatisfactoriness of that situation with calm and joy. Consider other people who have dealt with worse situations skillfully.




To help integrate the 4th Satipatthana into everyday life, and practice both internally and externally, Tenzin’s task was (i) (internally) to spot when he was not concentrating at school and which hindrance was responsible, and be mindful of the conditions for it arising and passing; and (ii) (externally) also spot when other children were not concentrating, which hindrance seemed to be responsible, and the conditions for its arising and passing. In the case of "doubt" it referred to doubt about the value of the lesson; then the antidote was to consider the joy of learning, and the unsatisfactoriness of ignorance.




For discussion of the sutta see:

Analayo (2004). Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization. Windhorse Publications.

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