Mahasi Sayadaw

• Renowned Meditation Master and author
• Questioner at the Sixth Buddhist Council held at Kaba Aye, Rangoon, Burma
• Chief Resident Monk of Mahasi Sasana Yeiktha
• Mentees : Sayadaws U Pandita, U Kundala, U Janabhivamsa and many meditation teachers

Practical Vipassana Meditation Exercises

• by The Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw
• Talk given to his disciples on their induction into Vipassana Mediation at Sasana Yeikhta Meditation Center, Yangon, Myanmar
• Translated from the Myanmar language by U Nyi Nyi
• Original Publisher : The Buddhasasanuggaha Association, Yangon, Myanmar
• Dhamma dana distribution : Tathagata Meditation Center, San Jose, California
• 22 pages
• Vipassana (Insight Meditation)
• understand correctly the nature of the psycho-physical phenomena taking place in the body
• rupa : material qualities
• nama : acts of consciousness or awareness
• breathing : vayodhatu (the element of motion)
• …
• yogi should behave as if he were a weak invalid
• noting (at all times)
• physical object of attention and the mental act of noting occur as a pair
• relaize all phenomena are anicca, dukkha, and anatta
• experience nana (knowledge) : path, fruit, liberation
• INITIAL DOUBT

Dhammacakkappavatttana Sutta

• The Great Discourse on the Wheel of Dhamma
• Teacher : The Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw
• Translator : U Ko Lay
• Sukhi Hotu Dhamma Publication 1998
• PART I
• Preface to the Discourse
• The Date of the Discourse
• Three Kids of Introduction
• …
• PART II
• Sensuous gratification is base and vulgar
• Dittadhamma Nibbana Vada
• A low, common practice
• …
• PART III
• Elaboration of the Eightfold Path
• …
• PART IV
• Truth of Suffering (Dukks Sacca)
• …
• PART V
• Samudaya Sacca
• …
• PART VI
• Nirodha Sacca
• …
• PART VII
• Sacca Nana with regard to Dukka Sacca
• Kicca Nana with regard to Dukka Sacca
• Kata Nana with regard to Dukka Sacca
• …
• PART VIII
• When the Buddha did not admit Enlightenment
• Acknowledgement of Buddhahood
• Concluding statement
• …

Fundamentals of Vipassana Meditation

Primary Author : Mahasi Sayadaw
Translator : Maung Tha Noe
Editor: Sayadaw U Silananda
Original Publisher : Dhammachakka Meditation Center, 1991
Republished with other sources : Tathagata Meditation Center

Other sources included the book
“Instructions to Meditation Practice” by Mahasi Sayadaw
“Benefits of Walking Meditation” by Sayadaw U Silananda
“Guidance for Yogis at Interview” by Sayadaw U Pandita
“An Interview with Mahasi Sayadaw” by Thamanaykyaw, translated by U Hla Myint