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Historical context
Preserved as MN 10 in the Pāli Majjhima Nikāya, with a longer version at DN 22 and parallels in other early Buddhist collections.
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What is this text?
The discourse gives repeated frameworks for direct observation and non-grasping across four domains of experience.
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Key ideas
- Four establishments of mindfulness
- Observation of arising and passing
- Practice in the context of the path
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Selected passage
Just mindful, they breathe in. Mindful, they breathe out.
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Original-language text
sato va assasati, sato passasati
Ancient Pāli text: public domain; root text data CC0.06
English translation
Just mindful, they breathe in. Mindful, they breathe out.
Translator: Bhikkhu Sujato
Bhikkhu Sujato translation: CC0 1.0.07
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Sources & further reading
MN 10: Mindfulness Meditation
Translator: Bhikkhu Sujato
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