Robert Sharf, Mindfulness and Mindlessness in Early Chan (PDF), in Philosophy East and West, vol. 64, n. 4, October 2014, p. 943, ISSN 0031-8221 (WC · ACNP). URL consultato il 3 dicembre 2015.
«Even so, your Majesty, sati, when it arises, calls to mind dhammas that are skillful and unskillful, with faults and faultless, inferior and refined, dark and pure, together with their counterparts: these are the four establishings of mindfulness, these are the four right endeavors, these are the four bases of success, these are the five faculties, these are the five powers, these are the seven awakening-factors, this is the noble eight-factored path, this is calm, this is insight, this is knowledge, this is freedom. Thus the one who practices yoga resorts to dhammas that should be resorted to and does not resort to dhammas that should not be resorted to; he embraces dhammas that should be embraced and does not embrace dhammas that should not be embraced.»
