Buddhist scholar and teacher Bhikkhu Analayo explores the practice of mindfulness of breathing in the sixteen steps of the Anapanasati Sutta. This is an authoritative, practice-orientated elucidation of a foundational Buddhist text, useful to meditators whatever their tradition or background.
In the first six chapters Analayo presents practical instructions comparable to his Satipatthana Meditation: A Practice Guide.
The remaining chapters contain his translations of extracts from the early Chinese canon. With his accompanying commentary, these help the practitioner appreciate the early Buddhist perspective on the breath and the practice of mindfulness of breathing.

Analayo presents his understanding of these early teachings, arising from his own meditation practice and teaching experience. His aim is to inspire all practitioners to use what he has found helpful to build their own practice and become self-reliant.

Mindfulness of Breathing: A Practice Guide and Translations, Bhikkhu Analayo, Windhorse Publications, 2019, Paperback, 278 pages, $28.95

Bhikkhu Analayo completed a PhD on the Satipatthanasutta at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2000, published in 2003 by Windhorse Publications under the title Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization. He has also written Perspectives on Satipatthana (Windhorse Publications, 2014), a comparative study of parallel versions of the Satipatthana Sutta, and Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation (Windhorse Publications, 2015). His other works include a habilitation research through a comparative study of the Majjhimanikaya in the light of its Chinese, Sanskrit and Tibetan parallels at the University of Marburg in 2007, published 2011.