Pat, you may want consider reading up on the Gradual Training (as found in MN 107) to have a more complete picture of the practice, rather than just focus on "meditation", which most people would associate with just focusing on breathing.

kb

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, 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 .