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B0102030503satipaṭṭhānasaṃyuttaṃ(mindfulness foundations connected)

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The Chapter on Searches 1-10. The Ten Discourses beginning with Search 451-460. "These three searches, monks. Which three? The search for sensual pleasures, the search for existence, the search for the holy life"—this should be expanded. The Ninth Chapter on Searches. Its Summary – Search, manner, outflow, existence, and three kinds of suffering; Fallow, stain, and affliction, feeling, craving, and thirst. 10. The Chapter on Floods 1-10. The Ten Discourses beginning with the Higher Fetters 461-470. "These five, monks, are the higher fetters. Which five? Attachment to form, attachment to the formless, conceit, restlessness, ignorance – these, monks, are the five higher fetters. Of these five higher fetters, monks... For the direct knowledge, full understanding, exhaustion, and abandoning of the fetters, the four establishments of mindfulness should be developed. "Which are the four? Here, monks, a monk dwells observing the body in the body, ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful, removing covetousness and displeasure in the world; in feelings... (etc.)... in mind... (etc.)... in phenomena, observing phenomena, he dwells ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful, removing covetousness and displeasure in the world. Indeed, monks, for the direct knowledge, full understanding, exhaustion, and abandoning of these five upper fetters, these four establishments of mindfulness should be developed." (Just as the Connected Discourses on the Path, so should the Connected Discourses on the Establishments of Mindfulness be elaborated.) The Chapter on Floods, the tenth. Its summary – Flood, Bond, Clinging, Knots, and Latent Tendencies; Sense Pleasures, Hindrances, Aggregates, and Lower and Upper Fetters. The Connected Discourses on the Establishments of Mindfulness, the third.

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