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The Book of the Sixes
The Book of the Sixes

117(1)Contemplating the Body

Author: Bhikkhu Bodhi @ IAPT

117(1)Contemplating the Body From this point on there are no uddana verses to rely on for sutta titles.I thus adopt the titles in Ce.

"Bhikkhus,without having abandoned six things,one is incapable of contemplating the body in the body.
What six?
Delight in work,delight in talk,delight in sleep,delight in company,not guarding the doors of the sense faculties,and being immoderate in eating.
Without having abandoned these six things,one is incapable of contemplating the body in the body.[450]
"Bhikkhus,having abandoned six things,one is capableof contemplating the body in the body.
What six?
Delight in work...being immoderate in eating.Having abandoned thesesix things,one is capable of contemplating the body in the body."