sn52.8:3.1 It is quite impossible for a mendicant who is developing and cultivating the four kinds of mindfulness meditation to resign the training and return to a lesser life.
sn52.8:3.2 Why is that?
sn52.8:3.3 Because for a long time that mendicant’s mind has slanted, sloped, and inclined to seclusion. So it’s impossible for them to return to a lesser life.
sn52.8:3.4 And how does a mendicant develop and cultivate the four kinds of mindfulness meditation?
sn52.8:3.5 It’s when a mendicant meditates by observing an aspect of the body …
sn52.8:3.6 feelings …
sn52.8:3.7 mind …
sn52.8:3.8 principles—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world.
sn52.8:3.9 That’s how a mendicant develops and cultivates the four kinds of mindfulness meditation.”