The Buddha — Siddhartha Gautama — called mindfulness “the path to enlightenment.” To spread the word of enlightenment, he asked that his senior monks (called bhikkhus) teach a doctrine called The Four Foundations of Mindfulness. When the bhikkhus asked the Buddha which four foundations they ...
did not obtain the truth of life. Therefore, he replaced Yoga asceticism with meditation. After the Enlightenment, through forty-nine days and nights of meditation beneath the Bodhi tree at Bodh Gaya in Bihar, Prince Siddhartha became the Buddha. The Buddhism he founded believes that the whole ...