Secure clean/wipe of a macbook pro to sell - how?

How do you securely take off all your information ready to sell your macbook? No install disc was supplied withit, it came with the os lion pre-installed.

Melyd wrote:
The software I purchased has a disc and the licence code so that can be re-installed after the machine is clean again i presume?
Include the 3rd party software discs when you sell the computer. Let the new user install them if they want.

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