Finally, some fun meditation: mindfulness of farts

As I found it it is a rare variant of the council edition but I think sometimes ‘ānāpāṇassati’ exists? would it then come from pāṇa rather than apāna?
Or could it be that the distinction went mostly lost in the pali?

One of the “mind blown” moments for me while reading Venerable Sujato’s “A History of Mindfulness” was when he put breath (breathing) meditation in contrast with corpse (decomposing) meditation.

We contemplate both the principle of life — the fragile, delicate breath — and the principle of death — a decomposing corpse.

I had never considered these two meditations as complementary, a logical pair that point to one of the deepest questions (if not the deepest) — the question of ‘life and death’. I was reminded of a sign hanging at Zen Mountain Monastery:

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Somewhat relevant history of farts:

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