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and external features of these five impurities. He knows the way how they arise and how they are destroyed. 2. Meditation upon five root spheres.
(Upadana skhandha). The monk recognizes the nature, the cause of arising, and the cause of destruction with regard to body, feeling, sensation, mentation and consciousness. He knows their internal and external feature.
3. Meditation upon the six internal and external sense-organs (âyatana).
. The monk recognizes the eye, the object known through the eye, and the impurity of attachment produced in connection with these two; he also knows how the attachment can arise and how to destroy it if it has arisen, also knows the way how it may not again rise after its destruction once. In the same way, he recognizes all about ear, nose, tongue, body and mind.
4. Meditation upon seven modes of attaining true knowledge (Bodhi anga).
The monk recognizes if he has within himself the recollection of true knowledge ; if he has it, he knows such ; if he has it not, he knows such. He also knows how to produce it if it is not in him, and how to keep it firmly if it has arisen in him, and how to advance it to its completion. In the same way he
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