[serius_06]

Found quite a good book by Ajahn Viradhammo that I thought I would share




Excerpt

The Buddhist teaching is not aimed at just getting
another kind of experience. It is about understanding the
nature of experience itself. It is aimed at actually observing
what it means to be a human being. We are contemplating
life, letting go of delusion, letting go of the source of
human suffering and realizing truth, realizing Dhamma. And
that’s a different process altogether.

When we’re doing mindfulness of breathing
(anapanasati) we’re not doing it with the effort to get something
later. We’re doing it to simply be with what is: just being with
an in-breath, being with an out-breath.

And what is the result when we’re being mindful in this
way? Well, I think we can all see. The mind becomes calm, our
attention is steady; we are aware and with the way things are.

http://www.what-buddha-taught.net/Bo..._Stillness.pdf