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The Discourse about the
Ways of Attending to Mindfulness

Summary

Thus I heard:
at one time the Gracious One was dwelling amongst the Kurus near a market town of the Kurus named Kammàssadamma.

There the Gracious One addressed the monks (saying): ßMonks!û ßVenerable Sir!û those monks replied to the Gracious One, and the Gracious One said this: ßThis is a one-way path, monks, for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of grief and lamentation, for the extinction of pain and sorrow, for attaining the right way, for the direct realisation of Nibbàna, that is to say, the four ways of attending to mindfulness.

Which four?

Here, monks, a monk dwells contemplating (the nature of) the body in the body, ardent, fully aware, and mindful, after removing avarice and sorrow regarding the world.

He dwells contemplating (the nature of) feelings in feelings, ardent, fully aware, and mindful, after removing avarice and sorrow regarding the world.

He dwells contemplating (the nature of) the mind in the mind, ardent, fully aware, and mindful, after removing avarice and sorrow regarding the world.

He dwells contemplating (the nature of) things in (various) things, ardent, fully aware, and mindful, after removing avarice and sorrow regarding the world.

The Summary is Finished