Tag: mindfulness of breathing

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Dharmabytes: A Kind and Intelligent Way

By Centre Team on Thu, 22 Feb, 2024 - 11:00

Dhammarati introduces the fourth tetrad: Inquiry into the Experience of Wisdom given on retreat as part of the series Anapanasati Sutta: Instructions for Awakening, Adhisthana, 2019.

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Dharmabytes: Imagine We Are Enough

By Centre Team on Mon, 19 Feb, 2024 - 11:00

Viveka introduces the spirit and context of the Anapanasati Sutta, beginning with the first tetrad: Inquiry Into the Experience of Body given on retreat as part of the series Anapanasati Sutta: Instructions for Awakening, Adhisthana, 2019.

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Dharmabytes: A Sense of Purpose

By Zac on Thu, 30 Mar, 2023 - 06:00

The very last words of the Buddha were ‘appamadena sampadetha’: with mindfulness strive on! Prajnamati reflects on those two last words, drawing out the qualities of mindfulness, as taught by the Buddha, and the quality of effort that will enable us to cultivate and develop it. This are teachings just as relevant to the contemporary beginner first learning the mindfulness of breathing meditation as to the seasoned renunciants attending the Buddha’s death 2500 years ago.

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Dharmabytes: Freedom from Pushing and Pulling

By Zac on Thu, 16 Mar, 2023 - 06:00

Exploration by Nagesvara of the beginning of the Anapansati meditation practice, namely the preliminaries and the breath.

“Here, gone to the forest to the root of a tree or to an empty hut, we sit down; folding our legs crosswise, keeping the body erect, and having established mindfulness to the fore, mindful, one breathes in; mindful one breathes out. While breathing in long, one knows: ‘I breathe in long.’ While breathing out long, one knows,...

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Dharmabyte: Working at Your Own Pace

By Sadayasihi on Wed, 9 May, 2018 - 15:45

This FBA Dharmabyte, ’Working at Your Own Pace’ brings to life Viveka’s fresh and vibrant take on the traditional practice of anapanasati - mindfulness with breathing.

Using the breath as a stabilizing presence, this series of meditations (including two fully-guided practices) is designed to help us discover the nature of reality itself by encouraging us to notice what is actually happening each moment in a direct and open way. Anapanasati is a complete path to awakening...