[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Religion and philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion) › [Studies in the Origins of Buddhism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957) › c19.99 # Studies in the Origins of Buddhism c19.99 Studies in the Origins of Buddhism c19.99 - **Language:** English ### [c19.99](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.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 - [Previous: c19.98](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c19.98) - [Next: c19.100](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c19.100) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c19.99](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c19.99) · Pramāṇa