A conscious awareness of the nature of phenomena, even when engaged in the most seemingly insignificant aspects of practical life. This awareness is a consequence of the highest realization of the ultimate nature of reality.

One of the main aspects of mindfulness as broadly construed, heedfulness indicates stable introspective awareness and guarding the mind against negative thoughts and emotions while fostering positive or virtuous states of mind. As explained in The Questions of the Nāga King Anavatapta, its more fundamental meaning is retaining an abiding awareness of the true nature of all phenomena through the correct understanding of dependent origination.

Heedful attention to virtuous qualities.

A set of qualities of the bodhisattvas. These are explained in detail by the Buddha at UT22084-061-018-115.

This denotes a type of awareness of the most seemingly insignificant aspects of practical life, an awareness derived as a consequence of the highest realization of the ultimate nature of reality. As it is stated in the Anavatapta­nāga­rāja­paripṛcchā­sūtra (Toh 156), UT22084-058-005-308: “He who realizes voidness, that person is consciously aware.” “Ultimate realization,” far from obliterating the relative world, brings it into highly specific, albeit dreamlike, focus.

Heedful attention to virtuous qualities.

A major aspect of mindfulness as broadly construed. Remaining attentive to nurturing virtuous activities of body, speech, and mind, and rejecting negative activities of body, speech, and mind. More fundamentally it means retaining awareness of the true nature.