[287] … (a corpse discarded in a charnel ground:) bones, rotted, crumbled to powder. He brings this very body into comparison: "This body too is of such a nature (dhamma), will come to be thus, has not passed beyond this."
Thus he dwells contemplating the body in the body (kāyānupassanā) internally, or he dwells contemplating the body in the body externally, or he dwells contemplating the body in the body both internally and externally. He dwells contemplating the nature of origin (samudaya) in the body, or he dwells contemplating the nature of vanishing in the body, or he dwells contemplating the nature of both origin and vanishing in the body. Or else his mindfulness (sati) that "there is a body" is established, just to the extent of knowledge (ñāṇa), just to the extent of recollection. And he dwells independent, and does not cling to anything in the world. Thus too, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu dwells contemplating the body in the body.
The Section on the Nine Charnel Ground (sivathikā) Contemplations is finished.
The Contemplation of the Body is finished.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.