sn54.13:6.1 There’s a time when a mendicant practices like this: ‘I’ll breathe in experiencing rapture …
sn54.13:6.2 bliss …
sn54.13:6.3 mind …’ …
sn54.13:6.4 They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in stilling the mental process.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out stilling the mental process.’
sn54.13:6.5 At such a time a mendicant is meditating by observing an aspect of feelings—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world.
sn54.13:6.6 Why is that?
sn54.13:6.7 Because careful application of mind to the in-breaths and out-breaths is a certain aspect of feelings, I say.
sn54.13:6.8 Therefore, at such a time a mendicant is meditating by observing an aspect of feelings—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world.