Friends:
Mahãmoggallãna on the Foul Body:
You ragged shed of a chain of bones, sewn together
with flesh and sinews.
Fie upon you evil-smelling body worshipping
those who have another's limbs.
You bag of shit, tied up with skin, you demon with lumps on
your chest...
Nine holes is there in you body, ever streaming with disgusting things...
You body, with your nine oozing holes, makes an evil smell and
is all brimful
of smelly mess. Any Bhikkhu desiring purity avoids this putrid form as
one
avoids any stinking heap of rotten excrement...
If any person knew you body, as I know you, he would violently avoid you,
keeping far away, as one avoids a fetid toilet-pit in the rainy season...
This is so, Great Hero, as you say, Ascetic and here many
sink down as an
old drowning bull in deep, wet, and fatal mud.. Feverishly desiring the foul!
See this painted puppet, a heap of sores, a constructed form,
diseased,
decaying, falling apart, with many evil intentions, of no
permanent stability,
or safety...
 
In whomever such
Awareness
of the body as a dangerous & disgusting trap
is not developed, not pursued,
Mara gains entry, Mara gains a
foothold...
These
'body-lovers' become
Mara's
- the Evil One's - friends and soldiers!
Not knowing, not seeing Suffering - the 1st Truth - they run about
claiming:
Body is beautiful, form is happiness, there is neither sickness, decay,
ageing
nor any death! When
Mara contacts them, they say: Come on in Sir, touch
me!,
it will be my honour and pleasure... Because of this false & wrong
view, such
feverish 'body-lovers' share a future painful destiny with
Mara the
Evil One!
 
Body (Kaya)
understood only as being a Fragile Form:
kāyagatāsati,
Meditation_On_the_Body,
The_9_Corpse_Meditations,
Body_as_only_Form,
The_32_Parts,
The_Skeleton,
Body_Contemplation,
Foul_Frame,
Body_Awareness,
Immersing_the_Body_in_the_Mind,
Meditation_On_the_Body_Kayagata-Sati,
Corpse_Meditation,
Bag_of_Bones
Awareness of
the Body gives fearlessness of even death!
Meditation_On_the_Body disables greed, lust and lewd desire!
The_9_Corpse_Meditations induces a bold, brave, and confident joy!
Source:
Theragāthā:
verses 1150-1157
Body
= Bag
of Bones!
   
Updated:
09 Jul 2010
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