The Buddha's Repetition of the Four Abidings of Mindfulness

The Buddha repeats with each of these four abidings, he's repeating the words, abiding, ardent, clearly knowing and mindful, free from desires and discontent. These are the ones that we need to cultivate. This is part of our cultural attention deficit disorder. I find that what I'm reading the sutas, all listening to them. Whenever I come across a whole series of repetitions, my mind just tends to skip over them thinking, oh, I heard that already. There is another possibility.