Early Buddhist Meditation II: Mindfulness of Breathing

Instructor(s): Bhikkhu Anālayo

Program Description:

This path program is an in-depth study of meditation as it emerges in the early Buddhist discourses, extant in Pāli and compared with their parallels in Chinese. This path is intended for experienced practitioners of meditation who wish to deepen their understanding of the canonical Buddhist source material. Each program will combine study and discussion sessions in the mornings with meditation practice during the rest of the day; the last days of the program will be in complete silence and dedicated to meditation only. The three programs, which build on each other to form the path, cover:

1. The Four Establishments of Mindfulness

2. Mindfulness of Breathing

3. The Divine Abodes and Emptiness

This program will undertake an in-depth study of the sixteen steps of mindfulness of breathing, as a way of combining tranquility and insight in a form of practice that aims at the cultivation of the awakening factors. This program thereby builds on the practice of the awakening factors developed in the first program on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness.

Required Reading: Bhikkhu Anālayo 2019: Mindfulness of Breathing: A Practice Guide and Translations, Cambridge: Windhorse Publications.

Information on the full path program can be found here.

About the Instructor(s):
• 

  Bhikkhu Anālayo

  Bhikkhu Anālayo is a scholar-monk and the author of numerous books on meditation and early Buddhism, such as Satipatthāna: The Direct Path to Realization, Perspectives on Satipatthāna, and Satipatthāna Meditation: A Practice Guide. He is a Faculty Member at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, having retired from being a professor at the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Hamburg. His main area of academic research is early Buddhism, with a special interest in the topics of meditation and women in Buddhism. At the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies he regularly teaches residential study & practice courses, participates in online programs and undertakes research into meditation-related themes.  For a full list of Bhikkhu Anālayo’s publications, please click here.