Friends:

Breathing Meditation was used by all Buddhas to Awaken!
It has aspects both of meditative calm (Samatha <http://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/samatha.htm> ) and penetrating insight (Vipassana <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/vipassanaa.htm> ).
It is extraordinarily advantageous to always return to this wonderful breathing technique.
Can recommend this booklet about standard Anapanasati Breathing Meditation very much:

   "Mindfulness of Breathing" Classic Anapanasati meditation manual
    of the root Pali texts translated by Bhikkhu Nanamoli. BPS. 1998.
    http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=404502

The optimum is when C <http://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/samatha_vipassanaa.htm> alm <http://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/samatha_vipassanaa.htm>  and Insight goes hand in hand, as if yoked together!

More on this both simple and quite complex Breathing Meditation:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_I.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_II.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_IV.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_III.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Awareness_by_Breathing.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_the_Breath.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Peaceful_and_Sublime_on_the_Spot...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Unique_Thing_Awareness_by_Breath...

More on Insight (Vipassanā <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/vipassanaa.htm> ):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Calm_and_Insight.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/In_this_very_Life.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Highway_to_Nibbana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_18_Principal_Insights.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Breathing_Calm_and_Insight.htm

Have a nice calm and insightful day!

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