Satipatthana

Satipatthana (Faded, Sanskrit), means establishment of the attention.

It is about an essential member of the Buddhist practice : the Attention must be established, maintained at every moment. This attention ( sati ) is not, within the Buddhist framework, a cold attention, an external observation; it is on the contrary a clear presence, a clear conscience of the things and mental events.

Satipatthana sutta

Satipatthana sutta is a speech of the Bouddha describing the establishment of the attention:

attention with the body;
attention with the feelings;
attention with the spirit ( citta - a spirit implying not only the rational part but also the emotional part of ourself);
attention with the mental formations ( dhammas - the word dhamma not wanting here to say teaching of the Buddha, but basic phenomenon of our experiment), those being here of five kinds: obstacles, aggregates, experiment of the directions, factors of awakening and noble truths.

This Satipatthana sutta is present in two basket Canon faded, therefore in two versions: there are Satipatthana sutta and Mahasatipatthana sutta.

See too

Noble eightfold path, a broader description of the practice;
Supervisory attentionnel for the attention according to the Neuropsychology.

References

HTTP: /www.canonpali.org/dn22.html Mahasatipatthana sutta

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