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Fourteen talks on ‘Anapanasati Mindfulness of In-and-Out Breathing’ by Venerable Ajahn Pasanno. This series of Dhamma Talks on the stages of Anapanasati was originally given to the community at Wat Pah Nanachat during the Rains’ Retreat of 1996.Ven. Pasanno Bhikkhu took ordination in Thailand in 1974, with Ven. Phra Khru Nañasirivatana as preceptor. During his first year as a monk he was taken by his teacher to meet Ajahn Chah, with whom he asked to be allowed to stay and train. One of the early residents of Wat Pah Nanachat, Ven. Pasanno became its abbot in his seventh year. During his incumbency Wat Pah Nanachat developed considerably, both in physical size and in reputation, and Ajahn Pasanno has become a very well-known and highly respected monk and Dhamma teacher in Thailand. Ajahn Pasanno moved to California on New Year’s Eve of 1997. He is now the abbot of Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery.From Anapanasati – Meditations on the Breath:To allow the mind to become peaceful we have to work at it, and for this we need to have some sort of a structure. I have found the Buddha’s teaching on the mindfulness of breathing in the Anapanasati Sutta a very effective and complete way of training the mind. When we first look at it we might think: ‘Wow! That’s really complicated, sixteen stages of mindfulness of breathing – that’s too much, I just want to watch my breath.’ But when we really learn how to use the steps of training that the Buddha laid down, we can see how complete and effective it is for training the mind. It’s a tool for changing the whole process of the mind and the way that we relate to the mind.The sixteen stages are related to the four foundations of mindfulness. Paying attention to each breath, to the in-breath and the out-breath, is just reading about the theory of them, we start to apply the foundations of mindfulness in a tangible way. In the sutta there are four sections with four stages each, making sixteen stages altogether. Each section gives a way of applying the breath with each of the four foundations of mindfulness: the body, the feelings, the mind and the mind objects.Dhamma Talks on AnapanasatiTalk 1 – Preparing for MeditationTalk 2 – Setting up MindfulnessTalk 3 – The First StepsTalk 4 – Experiencing the bodyTalk 5 – Tranquillizing the bodyTalk 6 – Rapture and PleasureTalk 7 – Mental Formations Talk 8 – Mental Formations & MindTalk 9 – Experiencing the MindTalk 10 – Gladdening the MindTalk 11 – Concentrating the MindTalk 12 – Wise AttentionTalk 13 – Impermanence & DispassionTalk 14 – Cessation & Freedom