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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Contemplating non-self in the six sense bases

From the Numerical Discources (The Book of the Tens, Sutta 60, p. 1412), translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi:

And what, Ananda, is the perception of non-self?  Here, having gone to the forest, to the foot of a tree, or to an empty hut, a bhikkhu reflects thus:
The eye is non-self, forms are non-self;
The ear is non-self, sounds are non-self;
The nose is non-self, odors are non-self;
The tongue is non-self, tastes are non-self;
The body is non-self, tactile objects are non-self;
The mind is non-self, mental phenomena are non-self.
Thus he dwells contemplating non-self in these six internal and external bases.  This is called the perception of non-self.

Thanks to Jerome Courtemanche for pointing out this passage to me.  

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