{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn54.5/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn54.5","id":"suttacentral_sn54.5","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn54.5/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, when mindfulness of breathing is developed and cultivated it\u2019s very fruitful and beneficial. And how is mindfulness of breathing developed and cultivated to be very fruitful and beneficial? 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 brings mindfulness to the present. Just mindful, they breathe in. Mindful, they breathe out. \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 Mindfulness of breathing, when developed and cultivated in this way, is very fruitful and beneficial. When mindfulness of breathing is developed and cultivated in this way you can expect seven fruits and benefits. What seven? You attain enlightenment early on in this very life. If not, you attain enlightenment at the time of death. If not, with the ending of the five lower fetters you\u2019re extinguished in between one life and the next \u2026 you\u2019re extinguished upon landing \u2026 you\u2019re extinguished without extra effort \u2026 you\u2019re extinguished with extra effort \u2026 you head upstream, going to the Akani\u1e6d\u1e6dha realm \u2026 When mindfulness of breathing is developed and cultivated in this way you can expect these seven fruits and benefits.\u201d","title":"Fruits (2nd)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":209}