sn54.11:3.1 For if anything should be rightly called
sn54.11:3.2 ‘a noble meditation’, or else ‘a divine meditation’, or else ‘a realized one’s meditation’,
sn54.11:3.3 it’s immersion due to mindfulness of breathing.
sn54.11:3.5 For those mendicants who are trainees—who haven’t achieved their heart’s desire, but live aspiring to the supreme sanctuary from the yoke—the development and cultivation of immersion due to mindfulness of breathing leads to the ending of defilements.
sn54.11:3.6 For those mendicants who are perfected—who have ended the defilements, completed the spiritual journey, done what had to be done, laid down the burden, achieved their heart’s goal, utterly ended the fetter of continued existence, and are rightly freed through enlightenment—the development and cultivation of immersion due to mindfulness of breathing leads to blissful meditation in this life, and to mindfulness and awareness.