Difference between revisions of "Breath-counting meditation"
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breath-counting meditation
数息観 (Skt anapana-smriti or anapana-samadhi; Jpn susoku-kan )
Also, counting-of-breath meditation. One of the five meditations. A method of quieting the mind by counting one's breaths. This meditative practice prepares one to enter samadhi, a high level of serene meditative contemplation. The Sanskrit word anapana means breath or breathing. Smriti means mindfulness, awareness, memory, or remembrance, and samadhi means concentration, contemplation, or meditation.