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The Foundations Of Mindfulness

Mahasatipatthana Sutta

Reflection on the Repulsive: Parts of The Body


Again, a monk reviews this very body
from the soles of the feet upwards and from the scalp downwards,
enclosed by the skin and full of manifold impurities:
"In this body, there are
  1. head-hair,
  2. body-hair,
  3. nails,
  4. teeth,
  5. skin,
  6. flesh,
  7. sinews,
  8. bones,
  9. bone-marrow,
  10. kidneys,
  11. heart,
  12. liver,
  13. pleura,
  14. spleen,
  15. lungs,
  16. mesentery,
  17. bowels,
  18. stomach,
  19. excrement,
  20. bile,
  21. phlegm,
  22. pus,
  23. blood,
  24. sweat,
  25. fats,
  26. tears,
  27. tallow,
  28. saliva,
  29. snot,
  30. synovic fluid,
  31. urine."
Just as if there were a bag, open at both ends, full of various kinds of grain
such as hill-rice, paddy, green gram, kidney-beans, sesame, husked rice
and a man with good eyesight were to open the bag and examine them,
saying: "This is hill-rice, this is paddy, this is green gram,
these are kidney-beans, this is sesame, this is husked rice."
So too a monk reviews this very body :
"In this body, there are
  1. head-hair,
  2. body-hair,
  3. nails,
  4. teeth,
  5. skin,
  6. flesh,
  7. sinews,
  8. bones,
  9. bone-marrow,
  10. kidneys,
  11. heart,
  12. liver,
  13. pleura,
  14. spleen,
  15. lungs,
  16. mesentery,
  17. bowels,
  18. stomach,
  19. excrement,
  20. bile,
  21. phlegm,
  22. pus,
  23. blood,
  24. sweat,
  25. fats,
  26. tears,
  27. tallow,
  28. saliva,
  29. snot,
  30. synovic fluid,
  31. urine."


(Insight)

So he abides contemplating body as body internally,
contemplating body as body externally,
contemplating body as body both internally and externally.

He abides contemplating arising phenomena in the body,
He abides contemplating vanishing phenomena in the body,
He abides contemplating both arising and vanishing phenomena in the body.

Or else, mindfulness that "there is a body" is present to him
just to the extent necessary for the knowledge and awareness.
And he abides independent, not clinging to anything in the world.
And that, monks, is how a monk abides contemplating body as body.



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