WELCOME
Sāntimāggā is about understanding the subjective, first-person experience of perceiving the world, experiencing emotions, and monitoring one’s internal narrative. It’s learning to be present, mindful, and aware wherever you are, doing whatever you’re doing as you do it.
Please take up the practice for yourself and the good of all others.
The Four Conditions
1: Interdependence
All conditioned things in the whole of things inter-are. This Interdependence is the fact of causality. Nothing comes into being or passes away on its own. Everything comes into being, exists for a time, and passes away in relationship to an infinite variety of continuously changing conditions.
2: Impermanence
Impermanence is impersonal: it has no respect for anything or anyone. All conditioned things in the whole of things are continually changing. Impermanence makes all conditioned things possible. Change is the felt effect of impermanence: you can see it, feel it, hear it, smell it, and taste it.
3: No Separate Self
Acknowledging the absence of a separate self is a step beyond acknowledging interdependence and impermanence. With this experience comes the certainty that all conditioned things in the whole of things lack an independent or permanent existence outside their interdependent causal conditions.
4: Choice
Making choices is available to us because all conditioned things in the whole of things exist in a web of interdependence and continual transformation. As self-aware agents within this web, we influence the transformation process. Beliefs and understandings, intentions, choice-making, decision-making, and our behaviors are interrelated with the flow of things.
