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Old 04-30-2012, 07:30 PM   #10
KasaBalak

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If one carefully reads the Sattipatthana Sutta, the Buddha put emphasis on awareness, not whether the breath is long or short.

Don't mean to be polemical but I do think this is an EXTREMELY important point.
hi Stefos

you may not believe me but the Buddha did not actually speak the Satipatthana Sutta because it does not bear the characteristics of a sutta spoken by Buddha, i.e., in proper sequence & order. the Satipatthana Sutta is simply a disorderly compilation of various teachings Buddha gave. the path to Nibbana cannot be understood by following the Satipatthana Sutta

the Buddha gave prominence to the breath as the meditation object in the Anapanasati sutta.

in the Anapanasati sutta, Buddha said:

Anapanasati that one has developed & made much of perfects the four foundations of mindfulness in SN 54.11, it is reported Buddha said:

Bhikkhus, if any wanderers of other sects ask you: "In what dwelling, friends, did the Blessed One generally dwell during the rains residence? - being asked thus, you should answer those wanderers thus: "During the rains residence, friends, the Blessed One generally dwelt in the concentration by mindfulness with breathing".

If anyone speaking rightly could say of anything: "It is a noble dwelling, a divine dwelling, the Tathagata's dwelling", it is of concentration by mindfulness with breathing that one could rightly say this. what is an EXTREMELY important point is this, namely, the Anapanasati sutta includes the vipassana meditation resulting in Nibbana, in which the Satipatthana sutta does not:

FOURTH TETRAD

(13) He trains himself; constantly contemplating impermanence I shall breathe in. He trains himself; constantly contemplating impermanence I shall breathe out.

(14) He trains himself; constantly contemplating fading away I shall breathe in. He trains himself: constantly contemplating fading away I shall breathe out.

(15) He trains himself: constantly contemplating quenching [Nibbana] I shall breathe in. He trains himself: constantly contemplating quenching I shall breathe out.

(16) He trains himself: constantly contemplating tossing back I shall breathe in. He trains himself: constantly contemplating tossing back I shall breathe out.

Bhikkhus, this is how Anapanasati that one has developed and made much of has great fruit and great benefit. thus Buddha taught:

So if a monk should wish: 'May neither my body be fatigued nor my eyes, and may my mind, through lack of clinging, be released from fermentations (asava),' then he should attend carefully to this same concentration through mindfulness with in-&-out breathing.

Dipa Sutta kind regards
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