Linked Discourses 47.45

1. Freedom From Death

A Heap of the Skillful

“Rightly speaking, mendicants, you’d call these four kinds of mindfulness meditation a ‘heap of the skillful’.

For these four kinds of mindfulness meditation are entirely a heap of the skillful.

What four?

It’s when a mendicant meditates by observing an aspect of the body—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world.

They meditate observing an aspect of feelings …

mind …

principles—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world.

Rightly speaking, you’d call these four kinds of mindfulness meditation a ‘heap of the skillful’.

For these four kinds of mindfulness meditation are entirely a heap of the skillful.”