Cittasubho
Cittasubho was the progenitor of mahāsati practice of meditation, which employs movement of the body to generate self-awareness.
Pann Intapew was born on September 5, 1911, at Buhom, Amphur Chiengkhan in the northeastern province of Loei, in Thailand.
At the age of eleven, he was ordained as a novice at the village monastery, and stayed there with his uncle who was a resident monk.
He had opportunities to meet several meditation masters and his enthusiasm in pursuing Dhamma (the Truth) continued to strengthen.
Furthermore, he began to realize that many years of being good, making merit, and practicing various methods of meditation had not liberated him from his anger.
In 1957, when he was nearly forty-six, he left his home with firm determination not to return unless he found the Truth.
He went to Wat Rangsimukdaram, Tambol Pannprao, Amphur Tabon in Nongkai Province and practiced a simple form of bodily movements except that he did not follow the recitation of the words "ting-ning" (moving-stopping) like others did.
Within a couple of days, his mind reached the End of Suffering completely without traditional rituals or teachers.
He taught his wife and relatives what he had found for two years and eight months, as a lay teacher.
Even though this temple is located on the outskirts of Bangkok, it maintains all the characteristics and formality of the Thai forest tradition.
On September 13, 1988, he died at the age of seventy-seven in a hut on Koh Buddhadhamma, Tabb Ming Kwan, Tambol Gudpong in Loei Province.
Mahasati Meditation is a simple and direct method of practice developed by Luangpor Teean Cittasubho, an important teacher in the world of Thai Buddhism.
Luangpor Teean taught that meditation is the art of seeing things as they are with awareness and wisdom.
Usually we see the world and everything around us through the filter of our concepts or thoughts and through our mental images which we have collected in our daily life since childhood.
With this active, clear, and pure mind we will realize the law of nature and the freedom of life.
In Mahasati Meditation the practitioner moves rhythmically with their awareness open to the movement of body and mind.
The movements are simple and repetitious, yet Mahasati Meditation is a powerful, deep, and advanced method for self-realization.
Mahasati Meditation can be practiced in four basic positions: sitting, lying, standing, walking.
After sitting for a long time, which may cause pains and aches, practitioners can change the position to the walking back and forth.
While sitting on a bus or in a car, practitioners lay their hand on the thigh and turn the palm up and down, or they run the thumb over the fingertip, or they make a fist and open it repeatedly.
