Prjedeed at Sāvatthi on Komudī, the full-Mond day of the fourth month. The Mönche had gathered together to siehe der Buddha und eminent Schüler had been busy instructing their pupils in the various attainments. The Kommentar says der Buddha had not gone on tour as usual because he wanted to give the Mönche opportunity of developing their attainments. (MA.ii.895-6.)
Seeing them thus assembled, der Buddha was pleased mit their demeanour und described how in the confraternity of Mönche were to be found men of various degrees of attainment. Some of them praktizierten the cultivation of mindfulness by breathing exercises und der Buddha proceeded to explain how it was done. Such mindfulness leads to the development of the vier satipatthānas, und these, in turn, to the sieben bojjhangas. Through them one attains deliverance through understanding. M.iii.78-88.