ABSTRACT
There are many ways of presenting the methodology of meditation. The meditation method involves the four foundations of mindfulness. The two foundations, mindfulness of the body and of feeling tone, go together very powerfully when we really look at our day and investigate what is bringing us to greater confinement, tunnel vision, and isolation. The next two foundations are mindfulness of the mind and mindfulness of mental objects. These two foundations are described in a lot of different ways in different teaching traditions and contexts. At a very basic level, mindfulness of the body is largely about posture—being mindful of when we are bending, stretching, standing, or sitting. When we combine body mindfulness with the second foundation, mindfulness of feeling tone, it opens the door to deep understanding. The factors we add to simple consciousness—such as thinking, emotion, memory, and so on—belong to the fourth foundation of mindfulness, the foundation of mental objects.
