The Practice Which leads to Nibbana - A Buddhist Library

throughout the body from head to feet. If you have difficulty indoing this then you can try to discern supporting together withhardness as this can make it easier to discern supporting. Thenwhen you can discern supporting easily you should look forpushing, hard, rough, heavy, and supporting throughout the wholebody.6. When you can discern these five then look for softness bypressing your tongue against the inside of your lip to feel its softness.Then continue to practice systematically until you can discern softnessthroughout the whole body. Then you should relax your bodyand continue to practice systematically until you can discern softnessthroughout the whole body. You can now look for pushing,hard, rough, heavy, supporting, and softness throughout the wholebody.7. Next look for smoothness by wetting your lips and rubbingyour tongue from side to side over them. Then practise as aboveuntil you can discern smoothness throughout the whole body andthen look for seven characteristics throughout the whole body, oneat a time.8. Next look for lightness by raising a single finger up anddown and feeling its lightness. Practise until you can discernlightness throughout the whole body and then look for eightcharacteristics as explained above.9. Next look for hotness (or warmth) throughout the wholebody. This is usually very easy to do. You can now discern ninecharacteristics.10. Next look for coldness by feeling the coldness of the breathas it enters the nostrils and then discern it systematically throughoutthe body. You can now discern ten characteristics.Note: The above ten characteristics are all known directlyw 109