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The focus is developing right samadhi, "collectedness" or "unification," often mis-translated as "concentration," which misleads because this is not about "concentrating," efforting, straining, or trying.
This is about allowing, accepting, and minding -- in the sense of maintaining mindfulness ("dispassionate bare-awareness") in general.
In specific, it is the development of the Four Foundations (categories or subjects) of Mindfulness (satipatthana):
The many exercises under each of these categories constitutes the fourfold establishing of mindfulness according to two famous discourses, the Satipatthana Sutta and Maha-Satipatthana Sutta.
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