Anapanasati, or “mindfulness of breathing,” is among the Buddhist methods of mind training given most prominence in the Pali Canon.
It was originally for his own use that the translator collected the material that follows from the Pali Canon and its commentaries. The idea was to have “under one cover,” for the purpose of study, the Pali teaching on this meditation subject, omitting nothing important and eliminating repetitions.
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You yourselves must strive, the Buddhas only point the way
Buddha, Dhp 276
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