The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2158 page)

(P
li,
sati-upa
h
na
, ‘the establishing or setting up of mindfulness’; Skt.,
sm
tiupasth
na
). The system of meditation based on mindfulness (
sati
), set forth by the Buddha in a discourse (
sutta
) of that name (
D
gha Nik
ya
2. 290–315;
Majjhima Nik
ya
1. 55–63), and regarded as the one scheme of practice indispensable to the realization of
nirv
na
. It consists of mindfulness directed successively upon the four objects which together represent the total range of the individual's experience of himself: his body (
k
ya
), feelings (
vedan
), mind (
citta
), and mental concepts (
dhamma
).
The practice of satipa