Gross level (olārika)
- Impermanence - each breath has a start and an end
- Unsatisfactoriness - If you try to control you breath there is pain and suffering
- Non self - Your breath is not in your control, you cannot stop it indefinitely and you cannot always manipulate it as you want (like prolong the in breath to x days)
Subtle level (sukhuma)
- Impermanence - if you take the touch of the breath this is arising and passing with great rapidity
- Unsatisfactoriness - any sensation born from the breathing process can be at times painful when say you have a stuffy nose, in case you experience blize this also passes away, the fact that this process keeps creating conditioned existance for the future itself open your up to further stress and suffering
- Non self - the feeling and fabrication arising from breathing is not in your control. Say you experience a neutral feeling and you are not aware of the arising and passing of phenomena which is felt with equanimity you are in the process of creating future existance as the process creating new fabrication has not stopped.
from User Suminda Sirinath S. Dharmasena - Buddhism Stack Exchange http://ift.tt/1Op6IFo by Suminda Sirinath S. Dharmasena (http://ift.tt/1ZwZIP2)
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