The "Linked Discourses on the Establishments of Mindfulness" contains discourses focusing on the four foundations of mindfulness: clear comprehension and full awareness of the body, felt experience, mind, and mental qualities. These teachings explore how to establish mindfulness as a means to develop right collectedness, insight and wisdom.
Satipaṭṭhānasaṁyutta - Linked Discourses on the Establishments of Mindfulness
The Buddha teaches the four establishments of mindfulness as the one-way path for the purification of beings and for the personal realization of Nibbāna.
The Buddha explains how a bhikkhu should live with mindfulness and full awareness.
Sāriputta boldly declares that no ascetic or brahmin has ever been, nor will ever be, more knowledgeable in directly knowing than the Blessed One in full awakening. He acknowledges that he cannot encompass the minds of all the Buddhas, past, future, or present. However, he understands a principle through the Dhamma - all those who become fully awakened do so by abandoning the five hindrances, establishing their minds in the four foundations of mindfulness, and developing the seven factors of awakening.
On the passing away of Sāriputta, the Buddha advises Ānanda to be an island unto himself, with no other refuge, with the Dhamma as his island, with the Dhamma as his refuge, not dependent on another as a refuge.
The Buddha explains how a bhikkhu should live with mindfulness and full awareness.
The four floods of sensual pleasures, continued existence, views, and ignorance are described in brief. The four establishments of mindfulness should be cultivated for directly knowing, full understanding, complete exhaustion, and giving up of these floods.
The four bonds of sensual pleasures, continued existence, views, and ignorance are described in brief. The four establishments of mindfulness should be cultivated for directly knowing, full understanding, complete exhaustion, and giving up of these bonds.
The four kinds of clinging - 1) clinging to sensual pleasures, 2) clinging to views, 3) clinging to rules and observances, and 4) clinging to a doctrine of self - are described in brief. The four establishments of mindfulness should be cultivated for directly knowing, full understanding, complete exhaustion, and giving up of these bonds.
The four knots of craving, ill will, clinging to rules and observances, and clinging to the idea that ‘This is the truth’ are described. The four establishments of mindfulness should be cultivated for directly knowing, full understanding, complete exhaustion, and giving up of these knots.
The seven underlying tendencies - 1) sensual desire, 2) aversion, 3) wrong view, 4) doubt, 5) conceit, 6) attachment to existence, and 7) ignorance - are described in brief. The four establishments of mindfulness should be cultivated for directly knowing, full understanding, complete exhaustion, and giving up of these tendencies.
The five cords of sensual pleasure are described in brief. The four establishments of mindfulness should be cultivated for directly knowing, full understanding, complete exhaustion, and giving up of these five cords of sensual pleasure.
The five hindrances - 1) sensual desire, 2) ill will, 3) dullness and drowsiness, 4) restlessness and worry, and 5) doubt - are described in brief. The four establishments of mindfulness should be cultivated for directly knowing, full understanding, complete exhaustion, and giving up of these five cords of sensual pleasure.
The five aggregates that are subject to clinging - 1) form, 2) feeling, 3) perception, 4) intentional constructs, and 5) consciousness - are described in brief. The four establishments of mindfulness should be cultivated for directly knowing, full understanding, complete exhaustion, and giving up of these five aggregates that are subject to clinging.
The five lower fetters - 1) personality view, 2) doubt, 3) attachment to rites and rituals, 4) sensual desire, and 5) ill will - are described in brief. The four establishments of mindfulness should be cultivated for directly knowing, full understanding, complete exhaustion, and giving up of these five lower fetters.
The five higher fetters - 1) Passion for worldly existence, 2) passion for formless existence, 3) conceit, 4) restlessness, and 5) ignorance - are described in brief. The four establishments of mindfulness should be cultivated for direct knowledge, full understanding, complete exhaustion, and giving up of these five higher fetters.