Saṃyutta Nikāya
5. Mahā-Vagga
54. Ānāpāna Saṃyutta
1. Eka-Dhamma Vagga
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
5. The Great Chapter
54. Kindred Sayings about
In-Breathing and Out-Breathing
1. The One Condition
Sutta 5
Dutiya Phalā Suttaṃ
Fruits (b)
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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[1][bodh][olds] THUS have I heard:
Once the Exalted One was staying near Sāvatthī
at Jeta Grove,
in Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.
Then the Exalted One said:
"Monks, concentration on in-breathing and our-breathing,
if cultivated and made much of,
is of great fruit,
of great profit.
How cultivated?
Monks, under this rule,
a monk who goes to a forest
or the foot of a tree
or a lonely place,
sits down cross-legged,
holding the body straight.
Setting mindfulness in front of him,
he breathes in mindfully
and mindfully breathes out.
As he draws in a long breath he knows:
'A long breath I draw in.'
As he breathes out a long breath he knows:
'I breathe out a long breath.'
As he draws in a short breath he knows:
'A short breath I draw in.'
As he breathes out a short breath he knows:
'I breathe out a short breath.'
Thus he makes up his mind (repeating):
'I shall breathe in,
feeling it go through the whole body.
Feeling it go through the whole body
I shall breathe out.
Calming down the bodily aggregate
I shall breathe in.
Calming down the bodily aggregate
I shall breathe out.'
Thus he makes up his mind (repeating):
'Feeling the thrill of zest
I shall breathe in.
Feeling the thrill of zest
I shall breathe out.
Feeling the sense of ease
I shall breathe in.
Feeling the sense of ease
I shall breathe out.'
He makes up his mind (repeating):
'Aware of all mental factors
I shall breathe in.
Aware of all mental factors
I shall breathe out.
Calming down the mental factors
I shall breathe in.
Calming down the mental factors
I shall breathe out.
Aware of mind I shall breathe in.
Aware of mind I shall breathe out.'
He makes up his mind (repeating):
'Gladdening my mind I shall breathe in.
Gladdening my mind I shall breathe out.
Composing my mind I shall breathe in.
Composing my mind I shall breathe out.
Detaching my mind I shall breathe in.
Detaching my mind I shall breathe out.
"He makes up his mind (repeating):
'Contemplating impermanence I shall breathe in.
Contemplating impermanence I shall breathe out.
Contemplating dispassion I shall breathe in.
Contemplating dispassion I shall breathe out.
Contemplating cessation I shall breathe in.
Contemplating cessation I shall breathe out.
Contemplating renunciation I shall breathe in.
Contemplating renunciation I shall breathe out.
Thus cultivated, monks,
thus made much of,
the concentration on in-breathing and out-breathing
is of great fruit,
of great profit.
Monks, if concentration on in-breathing and out-breathing
be thus cultivated,
thus made much of,
these seven fruits may be looked for.
What seven?
In this very life, previously,[10]
one establishes gnosis,
and if not in this same life, previously,
then one does so at the moment of death.
If not at the moment of death,
then, by having worn down the five fetters
of the lower sort,
he is one who wins release midway.
Failing that,
he does so by reduction of his time.
Failing that he passes away without much trouble
Or failing that he passes away with some trouble.
If he do none of these,
he is 'one who goes upstream,'
and he is reborn in the Pure Abodes.
These, monks, are the seven fruits,
the seven profits
to be looked for
if concentration on in-breathing and out-breathing
be cultivated and made much of."
[10]Cf. supra, text, 204.
