Mahāsatipaṭṭhānasutta 0—Introduction
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2021-06-28

This series is classified Vivartha-vāda | Rāja-yoga | Ājñā-cakra | Mindfulness

Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was living among the Kuru people at a Kuru village named Kammāsadhamma. There the Blessed One addressed the monks: “Monks!” “Venerable sir,” those monks replied to the Blessed One. The Blessed One said this:

“Monks, this is the one-way path for the purification of beings, for the complete transcendence of sorrow and lamentation, for the disappearance of pain and depression, for the attainment of the way, for the realization of Nibbāna – that is, the four establishments of mindfulness. What four? 

1. “Monks, a monk abides, observing the body as the body: dedicated, completely aware and mindful, without covetousness or depression about the world. 
2. One abides, observing feelings as feelings: dedicated, completely aware and mindful, without covetousness or depression about the world.
3. One abides, observing the mind as the mind: dedicated, completely aware and mindful, without covetousness or depression about the world.
4. One abides, observing phenomena as phenomena: dedicated, completely aware and mindful, without covetousness or depression about the world.

sampajāna—mindful, thoughtful
attentive, deliberate, almost synonymous with sata, mindful 
acting with consideration or full attention

satipaṭṭhāna—establishing mindfulness
Application of mindfulness 
sati = mindful + paṭṭhāna = application, remaining, abiding

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