{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn54.20/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn54.20","id":"suttacentral_sn54.20","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn54.20/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, when immersion due to mindfulness of breathing is developed and cultivated it leads to the ending of defilements.\u201d \u2026 \u201cAnd how is immersion due to mindfulness of breathing developed and cultivated so as to lead to giving up the fetters, uprooting the underlying tendencies, completely understanding the course of time, and ending the defilements? It\u2019s when a mendicant\u2014gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut\u2014sits down cross-legged, sets their body straight, and establishes mindfulness in front of them. \u2026 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe in observing letting go.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe out observing letting go.\u2019 That\u2019s how immersion due to mindfulness of breathing is developed and cultivated so as to lead to giving up the fetters, uprooting the underlying tendencies, completely understanding the course of time, and ending the defilements.\u201d The Linked Discourses on Mindfulness of Breathing, the tenth section.","title":"The Ending of Defilements","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":153}