The Practice Which leads to Nibbana - A Buddhist Library

7. A plague 8. A disaster9. A terror 10. A menace11. No protection 12. No shelter13. No refuge 14. A danger15. The root of calamity 16. Murderous17. Subject to cankers 18. MŒra's bait19. Subject to birth 20. Subject to ageing21. Subject to illness 22. Subject to sorrow23. Subject to lamentation 24. Subject to despair25. Subject to defilementThere are five "tos" in the anatta group:1. Alien 2. Empty 3. Vain4. Void 5. Not selfFor some people while applying the forty "tos" to mentality,and matter internally and externally, in the past, present, and futuretheir insight progresses to the attainment of arahatship.If the meditator finds that his insight is still not strong enoughhe tries to apply the three characteristics to mentality and matter byusing the methods called the seven ways for matter and the sevenways for mentality.The Seven Ways for Matter1. The first way for matter is by applying the three characteristicsto matter during the period of one lifetime from rebirth to deathboth internally and externally.2. The second way for matter is by applying the threecharacteristics to matter during each age of one lifetime bothinternally and externally. To do this the meditator takes the periodof one lifetime as 100 years and then divides it into three ages consistingof 33 years and then applies the three characteristics to eachage by seeing that the matter present in the first age does not pass onto the second age and the matter present in the second age does notw 31