The text of the Satipatthana Sutta is central to the teaching of vipassana meditation. This book contains a fifteen-page abbreviated version of this sutta and a translation of Soma Thera’s commentary.
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You yourselves must strive, the Buddhas only point the way
Buddha, Dhp 276
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