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

The second of the two steps in the condensed method

The first of the two step instructions

Everything can help awaken mindfulness and then sustain it; calm and liberating insight develop together.

This talk gives an overview of mindfulness of breathing with reference to the Anapanasati Sutta. It is 16 stages of development show how the breath is a foundation for both concentration and insight

How mindfulness of breathing helps us to develop concentration and samadhi.

SAME AS PART 1, 2 AND 3

SAME AS PART 1 AND 2

Each of the Buddha's Suttas is about our lives. How do we test these teachings to see if they are beneficial or not? Some examples from the Anapanasati Sutta are given.