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　　 Look to see the full truth within yourself. Carry on in! Penetrating this body that inherently poses such a challenge to us.

　　So why can”t we fathom it out

　　 Why isn”t the heart bold and courageous

　　 Once we begin to see the truth, it will be enough to start challenging the deception. The truth, realized with wisdom, is potent and able gradually to wipe out those false and treacherous views until they are entirely eliminated.

　　The truth that appears within the heart arises through mindfulness and wisdom. This truth is valid in two aspects or conditions: In one respect there”s the truth of the aggregates whose very existence offers us a challenge. And then, when wisdom has fathomed and realized the truth of those conditions, there will be the truth within the heart. Such is the way of uprooting the defilements. Once these two truths meet and connect they are no longer harmful and will expel all the poison and danger out from the heart.

　　While on the ”Kammatthana sightseeing tour” of the body, we have examined and investigated its various organs, both large and small. Now we have to continue this Kammatthana trip to see how this body ends in transformation and dissolution. We must fix our attention here to see in what way it will decay and rot, until it has disintegrated and dispersed. The body must definitely go this way, though which aspects we target can be adjusted according to inclination and preference. Suppose that we wish to fix our attention on one particular object, so as to clearly see it within the heart. Whatever object we take — skin for instance — must be firmly held and targeted so that it appears as an image in the heart.

　　Should the image appear high or low, don”t speculate about its position. The object under investigation must be taken as the target for our awareness, with mindfulness directing the way without distraction. However much the object might appear to expand, just see it as it is in the present. Whether it”s high or low, let there just be awareness of that without wondering if it”s too high or too low, or has already left the body.

　　At first we might wonder why it is that although we set our investigation inside the body, the particular part now seems to be external to it. Don”t allow such thoughts to intervene. By not permitting awareness to wander from its target — whatever position it may have assumed — the object will give us a sight of ”the extraordinary and wondrous”. For example, if you concentrate on flesh, of whatever part of the body, see it clearly within yourself and then you”ll observe that it will gradually transform itself. With mindfulness firmly established — which is when we have unpided attention firmly fixed in front of us — the heart will know that it is doing the work and that wisdom is doing the analysis. In a short while that object begins to transform itself. It starts to decay and decompose.

　　Right then. Let”s get to see this clearly, without fear of death. Why should we be afraid when we are looking at the truth of the matter and not our own mortality

　　 Go ahead then, let it disintegrate. I did my own investigations in this way. Each of the different bodily-parts just broke-up. It was really fascinating doing this investigation, this exploration into one”s own body. Yet while being absorbed in the investigation, it then seemed as if the body had completely disappeared. Awareness of the body was not apparent even though I was investigating the body.

　　So. The body disintegrates. The head falls off... and an arm breaks off right there, in front of one. Then the other arm goes, and a length of bone, and everything inside ruptures and bursts out. Keep on looking. Be absorbed in watching the body as it falls apart.

　　Some of the bodily fluids seep out…

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