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THE PATH OF NIRVANA OR LIBERATION
(6) Samyak Vyayama-to strongly resolve, try, labour, and control for not having harmful thoughtactivities which have not yet arisen, to resolve etc. to give up the harmful thought-activities already arisen, to resolve etc. to have useful thought-activities which have not arisen, and to resolve and labour for maintaining the useful thought-activities which have already arisen, and to improve them, meditate upon them, and to lead them to perfection.
(7) Samyak Smriti-remembrance of the impurity etc. of the body and not to have grief or greed for it. In the same way having recollection of truth of feelings, mind-notions and other conditions.
(8) Samyak Samadhi-Here the Monk, having freed himself from sense-desires and harmful thoughtactivities meditates upon the first kind of concentration which is full of love and happiness having been produced by right argument, right thinking and self-discrimination, (2) then he, on getting subsidence of argument and thinking, acquires the second kind of concentration full of love and happiness caused by internal peace, steadiness of mind, freedom from intellect and thinking and self-absorption, (3) then he, on being non-attached to any sort of love, and on having recollection of truth and being experienced, acquires the third kind of concentration in which happiness is realized. Such a monk is called non-attached, full of recollection and walker in happiness by the learned, (4) and then at last
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