Transformation And Healing: The Sutra on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness (Buddhims)

the four foundations of mindfulness: awareness of the body, awareness of feelings, awareness of mental phenomena, and awareness of truths, of the laws of experience.

Every time one of the fifty-one mental formations arises, we acknowledge its presence, look deeply into it, and see its nature of impermanence and interbeing. When we practice this, we are liberated from fear, sorrow, and the fires burning inside us. When mindfulness embraces our joy, our sadness, and all our other mental formations, sooner or late

Everything that exists can be placed into one of the Four Establishments of Mindfulness—namely the body, the feelings, the mind, and the objects of the mind. “All dharmas” is another way of saying “the objects of the mind.” Although all dharmas are divided into four, in reality they are one, because all Four Establishments of Mindfulness are all ob

Conscious breathing also leads us to the basic realizations of the impermanence, emptiness, interdependent origination, selflessness, and nonduality of all that is.