Dispassion, Cessation & Letting Go to Underlie All Dhamma Practice | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Viraga Nirodha Patinissagga

Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts · Dec 5, 2025 · 26m

In the last Tetrad of Ānāpānasati, the last four steps of Breath Meditation, the Buddha teaches us to breathe in and out focussing on:

Anicca - Impermanence

Virāga - Fading Away of Passion = Dispassion

Nirodha - Ending/Cessation

Patinissagga - Letting Go

However, these four contemplations do not apply only to breath meditation.

In fact, they should be underlying principles of our whole Dhamma practice: Whether it's generosity and kindness, or purifying our ethical behaviour through keeping precepts, or practising sense restraint, or cultivating any meditation object - all of it should be done…