Path of Freedom [Vimuttimagga]

172 Vimuttimaggawalker in passion, through disliking and a walker in wisdom, through theelements.MINDFULNESS IN THIRTEEN WAYSAnd again, one should recall to mind the nature of the body throughthirteen ways: through seed, place, condition, oozing, gradual formation,worms, connection, 1 assemblage, loathsomeness, impurity, dependence, nonawarenessof obligation, finitude.Q. How should a man reflect on the nature of the body through "seed" ?A. As elaeagnus pungens, kosdtaki*, 2 and the like burn, so this bodyproduced from the impure seed of parents also burns. This is impure. Thusone should recall to mind the nature of the body through "seed".Q. How should one reflect on the nature of the body through "place" ?A. This body does not come out of uppala,*' 6 kumuda* 1^ or pundarika** Thiscomes out of the place where impurity, malodour and uncleanness are pressedtogether. This body lies across the womb from left to right. It leans againstthe back-bone of the mother, wrapped in the caul. This place is impure.Therefore the body is also impure. Thus should one recall the nature of thebody through "place". 6Q. How should one reflect on the nature of the body through "condition"?A, This body is not fed with gold, silver or gems. It does notgrow up through being fed with candana*, 1 tagara*, s aloe-wood and the like.This body grows in the womb of the mother and is mixed with nasal mucus,saliva, slobber and the tears which the mother swallows. This body is nourishedwith foul-smelling food and drink produced in the mother's womb. Rice,milk, 9 beans, nasal mucus, saliva, slobber and phlegm which are swallowedby the mother form part of this body. On malodorous, filthy fluid is thisbrought up. Thus should one recall to mind the nature of the body through"condition".Q. How should one reflect on the nature of the body through "oozing" ?A. This body is like a bag of skin with many holes exuding filth and urine.This body is filled with filth and urine. This body is a conglomeration ofdrink and food taken in, of nasal mucus, saliva, filth and urine. These various1. Lit. "dwelling peacefully". Cp Vis. Mag. 355, under Atthlsu, where "ukkipitvd thitam""patitthitam" are used in a similar description.* Transliteration.2. Trichosanthes dioeca, or luffa acutangula or luffa petandra.3. Blue lotus (Nymphaea Coerulea). 4. Edible white water-lily (Nymphaea esculenta).5. White lotus (Nymphaea Alba).6. Vbh.-a. 96: Ayarh hi satto mdtuhucchimhi nibbattamdno na uppala-paduma-pundarikddisunibbattati; attha kho hettha dmdsayassa upari pakkdsayassa, udarapatala-pi\thikantakdnarhvemajjhe, paramasambddhe, tibbandhakare, ndndkunapagandha-paribhdvite, asuciparamaduggandha-pavana-vicarite,adhimattajegucche kucchippadese putimaccha-piitikwnmdsa-candanikddisukimi viya nibbattati.7. Sandal wood. 8. The fragrant powder of the shrub Tabernaemontana coronaria.9. Unintelligible.