Breath by Breath

• Understand the structure of the Anapanasati Sutta's sixteen contemplations: how they move through four tetrads (body, feelings, mind, and dhamma) in a progression from gross to subtle that covers the entire range of meditative development
• Grasp the first tetrad's instructions in granular detail: long breath, short breath, the whole body, and calming the bodily formation — understanding each as a distinct contemplation with specific practical implications for how one sits and what one looks for
• Learn Rosenberg's teaching on the feeling tone (vedana) tetrad: why learning to perceive the pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral quality of each experience — before the automatic reactivity of liking and disliking arises — is central to the vipassana project
• Recognise the mind tetrads as a training in meta-awareness: how learning to know the mind that is currently present — distracted, contracted, expanded, liberated — rather than being lost in its contents develops the equanimity that liberation requires
• Appreciate Rosenberg's treatment of the dhamma tetrad: how contemplating impermanence, dispassion, cessation, and relinquishment through the direct experience of each breath gradually dissolves the clinging that is the root cause of suffering