Nalanda Vagga

Satipathana Samyutta Mahavagga Samyutta,
Samyutta Nikaya, Suttanta Pitaka

7. Ariya Sutta
Discourse on Purifying Dhamma

      383. Bhikkhus, there are these Four Methods of Steadfast Mindfulness which are purifying and which, when cultivated and practised many time, lead one who cultivates and practises them out of the cycle of existence to the complete ending of dukkha. What are the Four (Satipatthanas)? Bhikkhus, in this Teaching the bhikkhu abides keeping his mind steadfastly on the body (kaya) with diligence, comprehension and mindfulness, thus keeping away covetousness and distress in the five khandhas ...p... on Sensation ...p... on Mind ...p... keeps his mind steadfastly on mind-objects with diligence, comprehension and mindfulness, thus keeping away covetousness and distress in the five khandhas. These, bhikkhus, are the Four Methods of Steadfast Mindfulness which are purifying, and which, when cultivated and practised many times, lead one who cultivates and practises them out of the cycle of existence, to the complete ending of dukkha.

End of the Ariya Sutta,

the seventh in this Vagga.