THE DEPARTMENT OF MEDITION

What is meditation?
Meditation means that it is only one way for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrow and lamentation, for the disappearance of pain and grief, for reaching the Noble path, for the realization of Nibhana, namely, the four foundations of Mindfulness.
What are the four foundations of Mindfulness? In this teaching, they are as followings;
(1) One dwells contemplating the body in the body, ardently, clearly comprehending and mindful, removing covetousness and grief in the world.
(2) He dwells contemplating the feeling in the feeling, ardently, clearly comprehending and mindful, removing covetousness and grief in the world.
(3) He dwells contemplating the consciousness in the consciousness, ardently, clearly comprehending and mindful, removing covetousness and grief in the world.
(4) He dwells contemplating the Dhamma in the dhammas, ardently, clearly comprehending and mindful, removing covetousness and grief in the world.

How does one dwell contemplating the body in the body?
Now IBEC offers one of the fourteen kinds of the contemplating of the body in the body which is Mindfulness of Breathing.
What is Mindfulness of Breathing?
One have to choose suitable place for him, sits down cross-legged, keeps his upper body erect and directs mindfulness to the object of his meditation. Ever mindful, he breathes in, ever mindful, he breathes out. Breath in a long breath, he knows, “I am breathing in long”;Breathing out a long breath, he knows,“ I am breathing out long”. Breathing in a short breath, he knows, “I am breathing in a short breath”; Breathing out a short breath, he knows, “ I am breathing out a short breath”. “Making clear the entire in Breath body, I shall breath in”. Thus he makes efforts (literally, he trains himself); “Making clear the entire out breath body, I shall breath out,” thus he makes efforts. “Calming the gross in breath (literally, body conditioned things), I shall breath in,” thus he makes efforts; “Calming the gross out breath, I shall breath out,” thus he makes efforts.

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