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Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn
May I be so bold as to ask: If one is into the breath and that is the end all and be all,
(maybe some body awareness or even a mantra the mind repeats)...
what do you do when the breath leaves your body?
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Breath awareness is a good place to start, but since it can be greatly refined, it's good for advanced practice as well. Because the meditation of feeling breath is a sensation meditation, it opens up to complete body awareness. The issue there is, mind is still tempted by pleasure and reacts adversely to discomfort (the meditation reveals tendencies of mind), so I'd stick to breath only for a good while until there's enough equanimity to feel both pleasure and pain with equal neutrality on the basis of them being equally impermanent.