Good since you don t understand what WP OR means here s the explanation Mindfulness is the state of being mindful unsourced The English word mindful implies something slightly more than mere or bare awareness ie consciousness ref I should add that Ven Nyanaponika himself did not regard bare attention as capturing the complete significance of satipa h na but as representing only one phase the initial phase in the meditative development of right mindfulness Letter from Bhikkhu Bodhi to B Allen Wallace from the English word mindfull to the Buddhist term satipa h na incrompehensible WP OR ref In Buddhism mere or bare awareness is indicated by the word citta unsourced what s the relation WP OR To be mindful implies the state of taking care ref taking thought or care heedful being conscious or aware OED entry for Mindful there are about a million sources on mindfulness take a better one than your usual dictionaries of being aware of the context in which present moment activity is taking place unsourced In Buddhism the word sati Pali Sanskrit sm ti connotes the act of recollection or remembering the original etymological meaning of the word unsourced However this recollection or remembering is not of some memory or piece of information but rather a coming to of the mind s attention from a state of wandering or daydreaming back to present moment reality unsourced personal interpretation therefor WP OR