Carys Young
Let your in-breath and out-breath be the gatekeepers. When nama-rupa vanishes from your thoughts no new consciousness is generatedhence generation of suffering ceases. There I have answered OP's question too. How the practice of anapanasati relate to destruction of paticca-samuppada. It ...
3rd stage: dropping the counting; 4th stage: keeping the focus where the breath first enters the body • Metta (loving kindness) meditation: Bringing to mind, with a friendly attitude: oneself, then a good friend, neutral person, difficult person and in the final stage extending friendli...
The Ānāpānasati Sutta is a discourse (sutta) that details the Buddha’s instruction on using the breath (anapana) as a focus for mindfulness (sati) meditation. In Sanskrit, napana means breathing or breathing in. The prefix “a” means the opposite of what follows.The word a-napana t...
(as he does below, when explaining that the first four steps in breath meditation correspond to the practice of focusing on the body in and of itself as a frame of reference). The step of breathing in and out sensitive to the entire body relates to the many similes in the suttas ...