Mindfulness of breathing

ānāpānasati

Practice & instruction Core — needs to be understood Stage 6 of 8

Mindfulness of the in-breath and the out-breath.

On the path: 6 · Mindfulness and immersion — How does the mind become present, steady and penetrating? Satipaṭṭhāna, mindfulness of breathing, the factors of awakening, samādhi, the absorptions, serenity and insight. → to this stage in the learning path

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Ānāpānasati — mindfulness of breathing Ānāpānasati · MN 118
The four satipaṭṭhānas Satipaṭṭhāna

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Passages where ānāpānasati occurs literally — in the original, and, where a German translation of the same lines exists, in German.

Vimuttimagga · Vimuttimagga — The Path to Freedom (Upatissa, Kap. 1–12) · English

L7. Mindfulness of Breathing Introduction Q. What is “mindfulness of breathing (ānāpānasati)”? How is it practised? What are its characteristic, essential function, and footing? What are its benefits? What is the procedure? A. Āna is breathing in; apāna is breathing out. That mindfulness (sati), recollection, [remembering; the mindfulness that is recalling, retaining, holding, not forgetting, the mindfulness that is the faculty of mindfulness, the power of mindfulness,] and right mindfulness with regard to the sign of the in-breaths
Logic & epistemology · Satyasiddhiśāstram · Sanskrit

(u) āśvāsapraśvāso 'bhūtvotpadyate na smṛtivaśāt | kintu pratyayasāmagryotpadyate | sacittasyāsti acittakasya punarnāsti | ato jñāyate cittādhīna iti | yathācittañca bhidyate | audārikacittasya hrasvaḥ | sūkṣmacittasya dīrghaḥ | ānāpānaṃ bhūmyadhīnaṃ cittādhīnam | ānāpāna(bhūmi)gatasya ānāpānabhūmirapyasti | [tasya] tasmin samaye cittamapyasti | ānāpānabhūmirnāma kāmadhātu strīṇi dhyānāni ca | ya ( SSS_469 ) ānāpānabhūmigataḥ [tasya] asti tu ānāpānabhūmi- cittam | acittakasya tasmin samaye [tadbhūmi]cittamapi nāsti | ānāpānavihīnabhūmigatasya tasmin samaye [tadbhūmiścitta]mapi nāsti |
History & pilgrim accounts · 釋迦譜 · Chinese

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Abhidharma & Yogācāra · 大智度論 · Chinese

我乃至知者、見者亦如是。以無我空智慧，求我相不可得，是時，非有我、非無我。如日出無闇。劫盡時無一切物。如佛五眾，戒中破戒不可得。如日月、星宿、真珠等，諸天、鬼神、龍王光，於佛光中則不現，從大福德神通力生故；菩薩句義亦如是，入是般若波羅蜜智慧光中則不現。因是譬喻，教諸菩薩，當學一切法不取相，無所得故。【經】須菩提白佛言：「世尊！何等是一切法？云何一切法中無礙相應學、應知？」佛告須菩提：「一切法者，善法、不善法，記法、無記法，世間法、 …

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