Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

we should practice the other aspects of this meditation.
ii. The impurity of the dead body. This we have already
discussed in the five meditations and, from the impurity
meditations there, we should have gained both the will
to renounce and the perception of impermanence.
iii. Impurity of perverted views about the body. One has
the idea of "my" body or that this bodily contact
"belongs to me." This means that ego is extended to
other bodies over which we consider that we possess
proprietary rights. We have ideas such as "my" wife, or,
from the stimulus of bodily contact in kissing, of "my"
girl. If this meditation is successful then the first of the
sharp drivers (satkayadrsti) will be converted.
iv. Incomplete realization of impurity of the body. This
refers to the partial realization of sunyata in the
Hinayana when, with a spiritual body, one "touches"
nirvana. This view in the Lesser Vehicle is incomplete,
yet we shall soon see how to choose meditations from
among its practices to act as a bridge to the Mahayana.
For our present consideration, the middle two are the
most important, as the first has been dealt with, while
the fourth is yet to come.
But in this chapter, for the sake of easy and tidy
classification, we should make the four foundations
become five to fit in with the five sharp drivers. This
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