..续本文上一页hat the truth of each bodily part is deeply felt by the heart. By repeatedly examining and going over each part the heart will understand more and more, and the initial understanding will deepen to profound conviction.

　　Form.4 Listen, what is this form

　　 Hair of the head, hair of the body, nails, teeth and skin, flesh, sinews and bones: These are all form. This includes every internal bodily part and organ that is on the physical and material side. The Lord called this the form aggregate or simply, the body. All right then. Let”s look at this. While exploring and probing, mindfulness will need to follow each observation of a part or organ of the body. Let mindfulness direct the work of investigation, being constantly in attendance. Let wisdom screen and process the information for a more and more subtle understanding. This is our work and task.

　　Our previous occupation with thinking and imagining, with drifting and wandering, always lacking in mindfulness has been of enormous harm to the heart. Whereas this other work is directly leading to the ending of the internal suffering and danger. Mindfulness holds down each piece of work, while wisdom explores, and knowledge follows through each bodily part and provides a guideline for the heart to follow. Mindfulness and wisdom must constantly follow along closely, as writing follows the ruled line. This is the ”Kammatthana Tour”, the (in-)sight-seeing meditation trip around the cemetery found within ourselves.

　　You must not allow wishful over-eagerness for a speedy realization to interfere with the investigation. Keep your understanding following what is currently being investigated. Continue the analysis and differentiate and penetrate into the nature of this bodily aggregate. It”s covered with a mere membrane of skin — that still manages to deceive the eyes of us all. It”s not even as thick as a palm-leaf manuscript. That”s skin. Yet whichever way your investigations proceed they must always be aimed at the overcoming of delusion. That won”t be all, for they will soon start to become a quite fascinating and absorbing exercise too.

　　Alright! Let”s take this body and look up to the top and down to the bottom. Let”s see its outside and its inside. Let”s immerse ourselves in this tour, not merely ”going along for the ride” but with mindfulness in full attendance together with wisdom checking each experience. In this way wherever you look you”ll find the true Dhamma.

　　This can be considered the work of purging and eliminating the poison of attachment5 which infiltrates and infects every part of the body. It is primarily because of this attachment that suffering is spread everywhere. This ”universal suffering” refers to the suffering in the heart caused by attachment, rather than any other sort.

　　The bodily pain and suffering arising from illness — the aggregates must always fall under the law of impermanence, suffering and not-self — was experienced by the Lord Buddha and the noble disciples. But the heart that has transcended those conditions, or is in a position to do so, can observe — without negligence — these things so that it”s no longer affected by them. This is because the envisioning of oneself is done so that you can investigate and get to the truth. This is the important factor in preventing anything from affecting the heart. In other words, suffering can no longer arise within, because the body is no longer imagined and credited as being ”me” or ”mine”.

　　Examine this body. Probe right into it. Alright then, what is skin really like

　　 How about those animal hides that are made into handbags and shoes

　　Let”s look at the whole lot: the flesh, sinews and bone. See here! Both animal flesh and human flesh are much the same. Delve into it — what”s the nature of bone

　　 What”s the differe…

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