Right Mindfulness is knowing what is happening while it is happening. It helps you recognize craving, aversion, and distraction early, before they run the day. This page gathers suttas that train presence, observation, and a calmer relationship with thoughts and feelings.
You don’t lose focus all at once.
It happens in small shifts, thought by thought, feeling by feeling.
MN 10 shows how to stay centred while everything keeps moving.
You’re here.
But your attention often isn’t.
Pulled into the past.
Or pushed into the future.
MN 131 shows why the present is the only place you can actually work.
Your attention is pulled all day.
By what you see, what you hear, what you think.
SN 35.206 shows why the mind feels scattered, and how to anchor it.
Pain is part of life.
Suffering often comes from what the mind adds next.
SN 36.6 – The Two Arrows explains the difference, and why learning to stop at one changes everything.
In this short teaching, the Buddha contrasts two ways of living: drifting through life half-aware, or meeting each moment awake.
Even a small moment of attention can shift the direction of a day.