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meditates upon the other six modes (1) thought of Dharma or piety (2) energy (3) love (4) peacefulness (5) equanimity or concentration (6) non-attachment. 5. Meditation on four Arya truths.
The monk rightly knows the nature of pain, its cause, cessation of pain and the means of cessation of pain.
As to the 8th path Samyak Samadhi four kinds of concentration have been mentioned. But there are other concentrations also after them. For them see Majjhim Nikaya 8th sallekhana sutta.
The other improved concentrations according to Sallekhana sutta are the following:
(1) Ākâsa-ánantya-ayatana, to have concentration on pure infinite space.
(2) Vijhâna-ânantya-âyatana-to have concentration on infinite consciousness.
(3) Akinchanya âyatana-to have concentration that nothing belongs to me.
(4) Naiva Sanjnâ nå sanjnâ âyatana to concentrate that there is neither name nor any nameless, neither any sensation nor any non-sensation. This last concentration leads to Nirvana, it appears.
As has been said above, the root cause of worldly wanderings is ignorance. We may give some more quotations from the Buddhist works to show the path of Nirvana.
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