Path of Freedom [Vimuttimagga]

208 Vimuttimaggaof the body. If they do not trickle out, they cause one hundred and one diseases.Thus one develops the perception of the loathsomeness of food through"aggregation".That yogin by these ways and through these activities develops the perceptionof the loathsomeness of food. Through disliking, his mind becomesfree and is not distracted. His mind being undistracted he destroys thehindrances, arouses the meditation (jhana) factors and dwells in accessconcentration.The perception of the loathsomeness of food has ended.,tThe sphere of nothingness and the sphere of neither perception nornon-perception are as was taught under the earth kasina before.Here the stanza says:—The subjects of meditation are hereindicated to the yogin in briefas if a man were pointing out the wayto Pataliputta. 1What's told concisely he can know in full.He sees what lies before and what behindand with discernment viewing understandstruth from untruth.From what have been here in detail set forth,namely, the marks and the merits complete,one ought to know, just as it is, the scopeof Freedom's Path.The chapter of the thirty-eight subjects of meditation has ended.The eighth chapter of the subjects of meditation has ended.THE EIGHTH FASCICLE OF THE PATH OF FREEDOM.1. Paliputat (transliteration).