[317] "Bhikkhus, when mindfulness directed to the body (kāyagatāsati) has been practiced, developed, cultivated, made a vehicle, made a basis, established, consolidated, and well undertaken, these ten benefits may be expected:
(1) One becomes a conqueror of discontent and delight, and discontent does not conquer one; one dwells having overcome discontent whenever it has arisen.
(2) One becomes a conqueror of fear and dread, and fear and dread do not conquer one; one dwells having overcome fear and dread whenever they have arisen.
(3) One becomes one who endures cold, heat, hunger, and thirst; the contact of gadflies, mosquitoes, wind, sun, and creeping creatures; ill-spoken, unwelcome ways of speech; one becomes of a nature to bear arisen bodily feelings (vedanā) that are painful, racking, sharp, piercing, disagreeable, displeasing, and menacing to life.
(4) One obtains at will, without trouble, without difficulty, the four jhānas that pertain to the higher mind and are pleasant abidings here and now.
(5) One wields the manifold kinds of psychic power (iddhi): having been one, one becomes many; having been many, one becomes one; appearing … even as far as the Brahmā world one wields [mastery] with the body.
(6) With the divine ear element, purified and surpassing the human, one hears both kinds of sounds, the divine and the human, those that are far as well as near.
(7) One understands the minds of other beings, of other persons, having encompassed them with one's own mind (citta): a mind with lust one understands as a mind with lust; or a mind without lust … a mind with hatred … a mind without hatred … a mind with delusion … a mind without delusion … a contracted mind … a distracted mind … an exalted mind … an unexalted mind … a surpassable mind … an unsurpassable mind … a concentrated mind … an unconcentrated mind … a liberated mind … an unliberated mind one understands as an unliberated mind.
(8) One recollects one's manifold past abodes, that is: one birth, two births … Thus with their aspects and particulars one recollects one's manifold past abodes.
(9) With the divine eye, purified and surpassing the human, one sees beings passing away and reappearing—inferior and superior, fair and ugly, fortunate and unfortunate … one understands beings as faring according to their actions (kamma).
(10) With the destruction of the taints (āsava), one enters and dwells in the taintless liberation of mind and liberation by wisdom, having realized it for oneself with direct knowledge here and now.
Bhikkhus, when mindfulness directed to the body has been practiced, developed, cultivated, made a vehicle, made a basis, established, consolidated, and well undertaken, these ten benefits may be expected."
Thus spoke the Blessed One. Elated, those bhikkhus rejoiced in the Blessed One's words.
End of the Kāyagatāsati Sutta, the ninth.
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10. Saṅkhārūpapatti Sutta (120)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.