Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.

Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.

Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.

Connecting vedanā questions with ānāpānasati

Attitudes and expectations re meditation practice: beyond the feel-good factor. How the Vism. illustrates Mindfulness of Breathing.

Anapanasati 1. In silence, guided: Int, Ext, Both; 2. Internal�A-B-AB; 3. External--A-B-AB; 4, Int + Ext�B-A-AB; 5. Open awareness; 6. How was practice

Sati - the quality that allows remembering; different types of bodies we can experience inwardly through mindfulness of our physical senses and the mind; cultivating feelings from honesty, calm, patience and metta/ loving kindness - cultivating the citta/ heart; four places to live in a complete practice; wise attention; what do I feel/ feel like? Sankharas or energies / vitalities in the body; feeing oneself from the trap of the senses using the body of the breathing ; what knows how to breathe? Cultivating the experience of anapanasati - purifying through breathing. Discovering and working with tensions in the body - widen and soften. Breathing calm and patience into the body, nursing the body.

Anapanasati in 2’s