Studies in the Origins of Buddhism c19.99

c19.99

exposition and it has been called "Ekāyano Maggo". The details of the Kāyagatā Sati,⁷¹ Ānāpāna sati⁷² and the four satipaṭṭhānas⁷³ may represent a later development, but the fundamental idea—the necessity of a constant mindfulness—certainly appears to have been very ancient. From the very start Buddhism appears to have, "in its earnest hopeful system of self-culture, set itself strenuously against a distrait habit of the mind, calling it tatra-tatrābhinandinī—'the there-and-there-dalliance'; as it were of the butterfly."⁷⁴ It therefore urged the cultivation of Sati-sampajañña—the psychological state of prepared and pre-adjusted sense or voluntary attention.⁷⁵