“The Lord Buddha taught the methods of meditation (bhávaná) or mental development to free the mind from tension. The essence of meditation is to open and calm one’s mind and accept whatever that arises without any tightening at all. And thus, this book of instructions is written for tho...
I will mention this though, I do believe there are some benefits to breath meditation as it can help one to get into anariya jhana's. The benefit of this is it can help one to stay mostly away from lobha, dosa, moha and possibly aid one in comprehending the Buddha dhamma. But like...