'mindfulness', is

• one of the 5 spiritual abilities and powers (s. bala),

• one of the 7 factors of enlightenment (bojjhanga),

• and the 7th link of the 8-fold Path (magga),

• and is, in its widest sense, one of those mental factors inseparably associated with all karmically advantageous (kusala) and karma-produced lofty (sobhana) consciousness (Cf. Tab. II). -

For the 4 foundations of mindfulness s. satipatthāna.