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Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Linked Discourses

Vol 1:
Verses
SN1-11
Vol 2:
Causation
SN12-21
Vol 3:
Aggregates
SN22-34
Vol 4:
Sense Bases
SN35-44
Vol 5:
Great Book
SN45-56

54. Ānāpānasaṁyutta: On Breath Meditation

II. The Second Chapter — SN54.20: The Ending of Defilements

1“Mendicants, when immersion due to mindfulness of breathing is developed and cultivated it leads to the ending of defilements. And how is immersion due to mindfulness of breathing developed and cultivated so as to lead to giving up the fetters, uprooting the underlying tendencies, completely understanding the course of time, and ending the defilements?

It’s when a mendicant — gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut — sits down cross-legged, with their body straight, and focuses their mindfulness right there. …

They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in observing letting go.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out observing letting go.’


That’s how immersion due to mindfulness of breathing is developed and cultivated so as to lead to giving up the fetters, uprooting the underlying tendencies, completely understanding the course of time, and ending the defilements.”


1" …  Āsavānaṁ khayāya saṁvattati. Kathaṁ bhāvito ca, bhikkhave, ānāpānassatisamādhi kathaṁ bahulīkato saṁyojanappahānāya saṁvattati … anusayasamugghātāya saṁvattati … addhānapariññāya saṁvattati … āsavānaṁ khayāya saṁvattati?

Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu araññagato vā rukkhamūlagato vā … pe … paṭinissaggānupassī assasissāmīti sikkhati, paṭinissaggānupassī passasissāmīti sikkhati.


Evaṁ bhāvito kho, bhikkhave, ānāpānassatisamādhi evaṁ bahulīkato saṁyojanappahānāya saṁvattati … pe … anusayasamugghātāya saṁvattati … pe … addhānapariññāya saṁvattati … pe … āsavānaṁ khayāya saṁvattatī"ti.


Dasamaṁ.
Dutiyo vaggo.

2Icchānaṅgalaṁ kaṅkheyyaṁ,
ānandā apare duve;
Bhikkhū saṁyojanānusayā,
addhānaṁ āsavakkhayanti.

Ānāpānasaṁyuttaṁ dasamaṁ.