The Heart of Buddhist Meditation by Nyanaponika Thera

Author:Nyanaponika Thera
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781609259938
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser

‘Whosoever, O monks, has developed and frequently practiced Mindfulness of the Body, included for him therein are all beneficial things conducive to wisdom’

(Majjh. 119, Kāyagatāsati Sutta)

‘If the body is unmastered (by meditation; abhāvito), the mind will be unmastered; if the body is mastered, the mind is mastered’

(Majjh. 36, Mahā-Saccaka Sutta)

The ‘Path of Purification’ (Visuddhi Magga) says:

‘If, after having attended to the corporeal processes, one takes up the mental processes, and they do not present themselves clearly, the meditator should not abandon the practice, but should again and again comprehend, consider, take up and define just the corporeal processes. If the corporeal becomes to him fully distinct, unconfused and clear, the mental processes which have that corporeal process as object, will become clear by themselves’.

‘Since mental processes will become clear only to one who has grasped the corporeal with full clarity, any endeavour in grasping the mental processes should be made only by thoroughly grasping the corporeal, not otherwise. . . . If one proceeds thus, the practice of one's subject of meditation (kammahāna) will come to growth, development and maturity’.

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