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124 : JAINISM AND BUDDHISM silence etc. activities, the monks should be aware of all these and be careful in them.
(4) Then the monk may meditate that this body from head to foot, from foot to head is altogether full of filth, bones, blood, flesh, fat, perspiration, spitting, filth of nose, impurities etc. ; just as a soak is full of different kinds of corn-seeds, a clever man knows them separately as pulse, rice, wheat etc., so he may know the nature of every part of the body separately.
(5) Then he meditates that this body is made up of the elements earth, water, fire and air.
(6) Then he thinks that this body is sure to be destroyed once and to become a dead body.
(7) Then he considers that this body when dead is liable of being eaten by eagles, crows etc.
(8) Then he meditates that the body when dead will be broken into parts of head, legs, arms etc. separately.
Then he thinks that this body will once be grounded and mixed into ashes.
Thus he becomes unattached with the body. • II. Meditation upon feelings :
The monk knows, when he is feeling pleasure or pain and when there is neither pleasure nor pain. He properly ascertains the nature of the world pleasure and pain, strong and mild and also knows their internal and external features and their causes-knowing thus disinterestedly, he does not believe them to be useful.
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