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The Theravada Pali Canon version of the Anapanasati Sutta lists sixteen steps to relax and compose the mind and body. The Anapanasati Sutta is a celebrated text among Theravada Buddhists. [2] In the Theravada Pali Canon, this discourse is the 118th discourse in the Majjhima Nikaya (MN) and is thus frequently represented as "MN 118". [3]
The Ānāpānasati Sutta prescribes mindfulness of inhalation and exhalation as an element of mindfulness of the body, and recommends the practice of mindfulness of breathing as a means of cultivating the seven factors of awakening, which is an alternative formulation or description of the process of dhyana: sati (mindfulness), dhamma vicaya (analysis), viriya (persistence), pīti (rapture ...
Akankheyya Sutta: If a Bhikkhu Should Wish: According to the Buddha, careful observance of ethical precepts is the foundation of all higher achievements in the spiritual life. MN 7 Vatthupama Sutta: The Simile of the Cloth: The many different kinds of impurities that defile the mind are compared to a dirty cloth.
The Ānāpānasati Sutta specifically concerns mindfulness of inhalation and exhalation, as a part of paying attention to one's body in quietude, and recommends the practice of anapanasati meditation as a means of cultivating the Seven Factors of Enlightenment: sati (mindfulness), dhamma vicaya (analysis), viriya (persistence), which leads to ...
Suttas from the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon. List of Digha Nikaya suttas; List of Majjhima Nikaya suttas; List of Samyutta Nikaya suttas; List of Anguttara Nikaya suttas; List of Khuddaka Nikaya suttas
In addition, Mindfulness of Breathing, tr Nanamoli, 1998 (6th ed.), Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, Sri Lanka, includes a translation of the Anapanakatha in the Patisambhidamagga, along with the Anapanasati Sutta and other material from Pali literature on the subject.
Bhante Vimalaramsi taught that Jhānas have only a light absorption. One can sense things happening around one while in these states; one can even do Jhānas while doing walking meditation. He taught mainly from the Anapanasati Sutta and the Satipatthana Sutta, and maintained that Jhāna should not be considered as ecstatic or one-pointed ...
Anapanasati means to feel the sensations caused by the movements of the breath in the body, as is practiced in the context of mindfulness. According to tradition, Anapanasati was originally taught by the Buddha in several sutras including the Ānāpānasati Sutta. [note 7] (MN 118) The Āgamas of early Buddhism discuss ten forms of mindfulness.