Full-Body Breath Meditation

  was the meditation method the Buddha practiced on the night of his awakening, and also the one he taught in most detail to train his students in tranquility and insight. But despite the detail, his instructions sometimes read like riddles: He says, for instance, to breathe in and out sensitive to pleasure and rapture, but doesn’t say how to generate those feelings. He also says to let pleasure and rapture saturate the entire body, but again, doesn’t say how. It’s up to each meditator to use his or her own ingenuity to solve