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306 36. THE WAY TO NIBBÁNA (II) — MEDITATION siloka, sakkára, miccháyasa), and x.) self-praise and contempt for oth- ers (attukk ...

KASIÓA 307 Suppose, for instance, an aspirant takes an earth-kasióa for his object (kammaþþhána).^419 The surface of a circle of ...

308 36. THE WAY TO NIBBÁNA (II) — MEDITATION For the water-kasióa one may take a vessel full of colourless water, preferably rai ...

ANUSSATI 309 Saòghánussati is the reflection on the virtues of the pure members of the holy celibate order as follows: “Of good ...

310 36. THE WAY TO NIBBÁNA (II) — MEDITATION This meditation on the loathsomeness of the body leads to dispassion. Many bhikkhus ...

BRAHMAVIHÁRA 311 will come when one will realise that this so-called body is supported by mere breath and that body perishes whe ...

312 36. THE WAY TO NIBBÁNA (II) — MEDITATION Karuóá (compassion) is defined as that which makes the hearts of the good quiver wh ...

SUPERNORMAL POWERS 313 It is only one who has gained the fifth jhána that could develop the five kinds of abhiññá. Dibbacakkhu i ...

314 CHAPTER 37 THE FIVE HINDRANCES “There are these five corruptions of the heart, tainted by which the heart is neither soft, n ...

SUPERNORMAL POWERS 315 Ill will is inhibited by pìti or joy which is one of the jhána factors. It is attenuated on attaining sak ...

316 37. THE FIVE HINDRANCES ter, vicikicchá is that doubt about Buddha etc., but as a hindrance it denotes unsteadiness in one p ...

317 CHAPTER 38 THE WAY TO NIBBÁNA (III) Transient are all conditioned things,  Sorrowful are all conditioned things, Soulless ...

318 38. THE WAY TO NIBBÁNA (III) immortal soul (anattá). Wherever he turns his eyes he sees naught but these three characteristi ...

INSIGHT (VIPASSANÁ) 319 “As the traveller by night sees the landscape around him by a flash of lightning and the picture so obta ...

320 38. THE WAY TO NIBBÁNA (III) any of the five precepts. He is not subject to rebirth in states of woe as he is destined to en ...

WHY DOES AN ARAHANT CONTINUE TO LIVE? 321 Though an arahant he is not wholly free from physical suffering, as this experience of ...

322 38. THE WAY TO NIBBÁNA (III) Not fain am I to die nor yet to live. I shall lay down this mortal frame anon With mind alert ...

WHAT HAPPENS TO THE ARAHAT AFTER HIS PASSING AWAY? 323 Vaccha, to say that he is neither reborn nor not reborn would not fit the ...

324 38. THE WAY TO NIBBÁNA (III) One cannot say that the arahant is reborn as all passions that condition rebirth are eradicated ...

325 CHAPTER 39 THE STATE OF AN ARAHANT “Though little he recites the sacred texts, but acts in accordance with the teaching, for ...