10.
The Discourse on the Elimination of Mental Corruptions
996.
It leads to the elimination of mental corruptions.
And how, monks, is the concentration of mindfulness of breathing developed, how is it cultivated so that it leads to the abandoning of the mental fetters...
it leads to the uprooting of the underlying tendencies...
it leads to the full understanding of the course of cyclic existence...
it leads to the elimination of mental corruptions?
Here, monks, a monk, having gone to the forest, or having gone to the root of a tree, etc.
he trains: 'Observing relinquishment, I shall breathe in'; he trains: 'Observing relinquishment, I shall breathe out.'
Thus developed, monks, the concentration of mindfulness of breathing, thus cultivated, leads to the abandoning of the mental fetters, etc.
it leads to the uprooting of the underlying tendencies, etc.
it leads to the full understanding of the course of cyclic existence, etc.
it leads to the elimination of mental corruptions.
The tenth.