Hi Pat,
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha aka
Majjhima Nikaya contains The Foundations of Mindfulness
(Satipatthana Sutta), Mindfulness of Breathing (Anapanasati Sutta),
Mindfulness of the Body (Kayagatasati Sutta). These are the major
discourses on meditation in the discourses. The Middle Length Discourse
collection is considered by many to offer the most well rounded discourse
collection for training purposes.

The abbreviation for these discourses would be
MN 10, MN 118, MN 119 if you are searching for
them on Access to Insight web site.

mitta,
Dipa
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Kalamas, when you yourselves know: 'These things are good; these things are
not blamable; these things are praised by the wise; undertaken and observed,
these things lead to benefit and happiness,' enter on and abide in them. AN
3.65

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Patrick Hall <pathall@...> wrote:

> Hello friends,
>
> I've only just begun my studies of Pali, and looking at the size of
> the canon is rather overwhelming, millions of words of text. I'm
> simultaneously learning about Buddhism, but I've been practicing
> meditation for some time now.
>
> I'm interested in trying to read some original Pali about meditation,
> but I really have no idea how our where to find them among the thicket
> of text.
>
> Is there a section of the canon which is most focused on approaching
> meditation?
>
> I realize that it may be hard to interpret the Pali texts as a
> "how-to" guide (to get started I'm relying on a lot of works in
> English as well as dhamma talks), but I'm motivated to try to
> investigate some of the texts.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> With metta,
> Pat
>
> PS. I'm relying on the Unicode-encoded version of the canon from
> http://www.buddhistethics.org/palicanon.html .
>
>


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