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Friends:

Establishing the Awareness of Body as Body!

How, Friends, does one view any Body only as a Form?

Herein, Bhikkhus & Friends, the Bhikkhu contemplates the body
from the soles of the feet upward, and from the top of the hair
downward: This filthy frame with skin stretched over it, which is
filled with many impurities consists of head-hairs, body-hairs, nails,
teeth, skin, flesh, sinews, bones, marrow, kidneys, heart, liver, vomit
diaphragm, spleen, lungs, intestine, membrane, stomach, excrement,
brain, bile, lymph, pus, blood, sweat, fat, tears, skin, tallow, spit,
snot, joint-fluid, and urine. Just as if a man with good sight would
examine a sack with openings at both ends, filled with various kinds
of grain; paddy, beans, sesame, on opening it would recognize its
contents thus: That is paddy, this is beans, that is sesame, this is
husked rice: Exactly so does the Bhikkhu investigate this body...
While always thus aware & clearly comprehending, & thus removing
any lust, urge, envy, frustration & discontent rooted in this world,
the intelligent Bhikkhu keeps contemplating & regarding any & all
Body as an remote carcass of filthy foul form. As something bound
to emerge, decay & vanish... Not as mine, belonging to me or my self!
Not as lasting, stable & safe! Not as pleasant beauty or happiness!
In this way the intelligent Bhikkhu keeps reviewing any & all body
whether internal or external and he notes the cause of its arising
and the cause of its ceasing, or he just know: There is this body!
In this way he comes to live not clinging to & independent of body!
This is the way to contemplate the body only as a transient shell...

Source Text: Majjhima Nikāya 119: Kayagata-Sati Sutta
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Meditation_On_the_Body_Kayagata-Sati.htm

The reward is Fearlessness of Death & thereby Fearlessness of All!
Without fear there is the mental elevation of gladness and free joy!
It detaches and relinquishes from body & form and frees thereby...
Clever Disgust by Anti-Porn cooling all lust and greed for body!

For Inspiration have a collection of Corpse Pictures Only for Adults been deposited here:
http://s914.photobucket.com/albums/ac350/Asubha/  Guest Password: corpses

See also: Bag of Bones: A Miscellany on the Body compiled by Bhikkhu Khantipalo:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/khantipalo/wheel271.htm
kāyagatāsati, Meditation_On_the_Body, The_9_Corpse_Meditations,
Body_as_only_Form, Evil-smelling_body, The_32_Parts,
Meditation_On_the_Body_Kayagata-Sati, The_Skeleton.


Just a painted puppet!
A chain of bones plastered by skin with 9 oozing holes!
A heap of sores & rotten excrement with evil intentions!


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