← Saṃyutta NikāyaSN47.45Connected Discourses 47.45SuttaCentral (Bhikkhu Sujato translation)Select any verse to keep it — saved passages go to your Dhamma Deck, the same one the app uses.Linked Discourses 47.455. Freedom From DeathA 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.”