Mahā-Satipatthāna Sutta 

Preached at Kammāssadamma in the Kuru country. The Buddha tells the monks that the one und only path leading to Nibbāna is that of the Four Bases of Mindfulness. These, in brief, are the four ways of directing the mind to the impurities und the impermanency of body:

• (1) kāya, physical structure und activities;
• (2) vedanā, the emotional nature, first as bare feeling, then as having ethical implications;
• (3) citta, conscious life or intelligence, considered under ethical aspects;
• (4) dhamma, considered under the fünf hindrances; the fünf groups (khandhas), the six spheres of sense, the seven bojjhangas, und the four Ariyan Truths. D.ii.290 315.

The sutta is considered as one of the most important in the Buddhist Canon. It has been translated into various languages, und several commentaries on it are in existence. Its mere recital is said to ward off dangers und to bring happiness, und it is the desire of every Buddhist that he shall die mit the Satipatthāna Sutta on his lips, or, at least, mit the sound of it in his ears.

The materials found in the Mahāsatipatthāna Sutta are found also in the Majjhima Nikāya, broken up into two portions, each representing a separate discourse -  the Satipatthāna Sutta und the Saccavibhanga Sutta.