POSITIONS OF MASTERY – FIRST ONE

24. ‘Now these, Ânanda, are the eight positions of mastery [over the delusion arising from the apparent permanence of external things^[1]]. What are the eight?

25. ‘When a man having subjectively the idea of form sees externally forms which are finite, and pleasant or unpleasant to the sight, and having mastered them, is conscious that he knows and sees–this is the first position of mastery.

Buddhist Suttas – MAHÂ-PARINIBBÂNA-SUTTANTA 
Translated from Pâli by T. W. Rhys Davids [1881]
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