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The perception, expulsion or inhibition of the waves of aversion and attachment as soon as they arise, and not submission to them for a single moment is effected by self-awareness which is possible only by the practice of mindfulness. This is the secret of the cultivation of mindfulness.
The monk should avoid both ennui to spirituality and relish to sensuous objects which are harmful to his spiritual discipline as they impede his power of concentration on the spiritual path. The only way to get rid of these two impediments practicing analytical meditation and strengthening the faith in the discipline. The ennui and relish are due to non-vigilance and unmindfulness. 19 2.161 sadde ya phase ahiyasamāņa. The monk endures sound and touch without any reaction. Bhåșyam Sutra 161 The monk practising the discipline hears many abuses from the people. Some people may say that he has undertaken monkhood being unable to bear the burden of the family; others may say that he was a eunach and so has become a monk. While practising the special austerity in a cemetery, the monk hears dreadful hoarse laugh made by forest gods. Similarly physical torture he has to endure, which is generally made by humans, while in the case of practice in the cemetery it is made by forest gods. Amonk engaged in the spiritual discipline should perceive and endure the sounds and touches (without any reaction). The implication is: The monk should not develop attachment or aversion towards the desirable and undesirable sounds and touches. The absence of any conceptual activity of the mind is the only means to inhibiting. attachment and aversion. This is an example of the contemplative meditation on the pitfall' and 'means to liberation'. 2.762 ņivvimda ņamdim iha jiviyassa. Withdraw your attention from the allurements of worldly life. Bhășyam Sutra 162 You should develop disgust for the lust,20 i.e., mental satisfaction, in respect of life or life-force or bio-electricity arising from sounds and touches. The
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