In this supplementary reading from Bhikkhu Bodhi’s edition of The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, you’ll find the Buddha’s teachings on both insight and mindfulness of breathing practices from the Pali Canon.

In this selection from the Digha Nikāya, or the Long Discourses of the Buddha, we read passages from the Mahānidāna Sutta, one of the most profound discourses in the Pāli canon on the factors of dependent origination. Here we read the Buddha’s teachings on the twelve links of dependent origination and their relationship to the origin of suffering and no-self.