Dharma - The teachings of Ajahn Mun
The contemplation of the body is a practice that sages
—including the Buddha—have described in many ways.
For example, in the Mahasatipaṭṭhāna Sutta (Great
Establishings of Mindfulness Discourse), he calls it the contemplation of the
body as a frame of reference. In the root themes of meditation, which a
preceptor must teach at the beginning of the ordination ceremony, he describes
the contemplation of hairs of the head, hairs of the body, nails, teeth, and
skin.
In the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (Discourse on the
Turning of the Wheel of Dhamma), he teaches that birth, aging, and death are
stressful.
We have all taken birth now, haven’t we? When we
practice so as to opanayiko—take these teachings inward and contemplate them by
applying them to ourselves—we are not going wrong in the practice, because the
Dhamma is akāliko, ever-present; and āloko, blatantly clear both by day and by
night, with nothing to obscure it.
(Ajahn Mun)
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