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Watching the Mind while Watching the Breath | Guided Buddhist Meditation | Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri | 3rd Satipatthana
Often meditators are focussed so much on the meditation object, that they lose awareness of the general state of their mind, and how the mind relates to the meditation object.
Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages us to become fully aware of our mind while we're watching the breath, as the Buddha described in the third tetrad on Ānāpāṇasati:
We train ourselves to breathe in and out experiencing the mind
We train ourselves to breathe in and out exceedingly delighting the mind
We train ourselves to breathe in and out unifying the mind
We train ourselves to breathe in and out liberating the mind
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