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The Foundations Of Mindfulness

Mahasatipatthana Sutta



The Four Elements


Again, a monk reviews this body,
however it may be placed or disposed,
in terms of the elements:
There are in this body
  1. the earth-element
  2. the water-element
  3. the fire-element
  4. the air-element
Just as if a skilled butcher or his assistant,
having slaughtered a cow,
were to sit at a cross roads
with the carcass divided into portions,
so a monk reviews this very body,
however it may be placed or disposed,
in terms of the elements :
There are in this body
  1. the earth-element
  2. the water-element
  3. the fire-element
  4. the air-element


(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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