Continued from yesterday’s post…
Moreover, Meghiya, the Bhikkhu who holds to these five conditions, must give special attention to four other conditions; in order to abandon lust he must dwell on the impurity (of the body), in order to forsake malice he must dwell on kindness, with a view to the excision of (evil) thoughts, he must practise meditation by (counting) inhalations and exhalations; for the removal of the pride which says ‘I am’, he must exercise himself in the consciousness of the impermanency of all things. By the consciousness of impermanence, the consciousness of non-egoity is established, and he who is conscious of non-egoity succeeds in the removal of the notion ‘I am’, and in this very existence attains to Nirvana.”
And the Blessed One, in this connection, on that occasion, breathed forth this solemn utterance:–
| “He who judges not aright these mean and subtle thoughts, Whereby the mind is puffed up and inflated, Such a one wanders in confusion from birth to birth. But the wise man, ardent and mindful who keeps such thoughts in subjection. He escapes from the thoughts which puff up and inflate the mind.” |