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Introduction
Here we should like to explain very briefly how one meditates using mindfulness of breathing, in pali called anapanassati.
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Our explanation is based mainly on the 'anapanassati Sutta' ('The Mindfulness of Breathing Sutta') of the Majjhima Nikaya (The Middle Length Discourses). There the Buddha explains why one should practise mindfulness of breathing:
When, bhikkhus, mindfulness of breathing is developed and cultivated, it is of great fruit and great benefit.
Then The Buddha explains how mindfulness of breathing is of great fruit and great benefit:
When mindfulness of breathing is developed and cultivated, it fulfils the four foundations of mindfulness.
When the four foundations of mindfulness are developed and cultivated, they fulfil the seven enlightenment factors.
When the seven enlightenment factors are developed and cultivated, they fulfil True Knowledge and Liberation.
Here, the Buddha explains that when anapanassati (mindfulness of brea