Saṁpajaññababba

Suttapiṭaka · Majjhimanikāya · Vol. 12 · Section 136

[136] Bhikkhus, furthermore, a bhikkhu reviews this very body, upward from the soles of the feet, downward from the tips of the hair, bounded by skin, as full of impurity of many kinds: "There are in this body head hairs, body hairs, nails, teeth, skin, flesh, sinews, bones, bone marrow, kidneys, heart, liver, pleura, spleen, lungs, intestines, mesentery, undigested food, feces, bile, phlegm, pus, blood, sweat, fat, tears, grease, saliva, snot, synovial fluid, urine." Just as if, bhikkhus, there were a double-mouthed sack full of grain of various sorts, that is to say: sāli rice, paddy, mung beans, beans, sesame seeds, and husked rice; and a man with good eyes, having opened it, were to review it: "This is sāli rice, this is paddy, these are mung beans, these are beans, these are sesame seeds, this is husked rice" — even so, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu reviews this very body, upward from the soles of the feet, downward from the tips of the hair, bounded by skin, as full of impurity of many kinds: "There are in this body head hairs, body hairs … synovial fluid, urine." Thus he abides contemplating the body in the body internally … Thus too, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu abides contemplating the body in the body. End of the Section on Repulsiveness (paṭikūlamanasikāra).

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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