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B01030207satipaṭṭhānavibhaṅgo (mindfulness analysis treatise)

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here a monk dwells contemplating the body in the body, ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful, having removed covetousness and displeasure concerning the world. He dwells contemplating feelings in feelings, ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful, having removed covetousness and displeasure concerning the world. He dwells contemplating mind in mind, ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful, having removed covetousness and displeasure concerning the world. He dwells contemplating states in states, ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful, having removed covetousness and displeasure concerning the world. 387. Of the four foundations of mindfulness, how many are wholesome, how many unwholesome, how many indeterminate…and so on… How many refuges, how many non-refuges? 1. Triads 388. May be wholesome, may be indeterminate. May be associated with pleasant feeling, may be associated with neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling. May be result, may be a state with the nature of results. Not clung to, not clingable. Undefiled, not defiling. May be with initial application and sustained application, may be with only sustained application without initial application, may be without initial application and without sustained application. May be accompanied by joy, may be accompanied by happiness, may be accompanied by equanimity. Not to be abandoned by insight, nor by development. Not having causes to be abandoned by insight, nor by development. May lead to decrease, may lead neither to increase nor to decrease. May be of trainees, may be of those beyond training. Immeasurable. Having immeasurable objects. Sublime. May be fixed in rightness, may be unfixed. Not having the path as object, may have the path as cause, may have the path as dominant factor, may not be said to have the path as cause, nor to have the path as dominant factor. May be arisen, may be unarisen, may be arising. May be past, may be future, may be present. Not to be said to have past objects, nor future objects, nor present objects. May be internal, may be external, may be internal and external. Having external objects. Non-manifest, non-impinging. 2. Dyads 389. Not roots. With roots. Associated with roots. Not to be said as both roots and with roots, nor as with roots and not roots. Not to be said as both roots and associated with roots, nor as associated with roots and not roots. Not roots, with roots. With conditions. Conditioned. Non-manifest. Non-impinging. Formless. Supramundane. Knowable by some, not knowable by some. Not influxes. Without influxes. Disassociated from influxes. Not to be said as both influxes and with influxes, nor as with influxes and not influxes. Not to be said as both influxes and associated with influxes, nor as associated with influxes and not influxes. Disassociated from influxes. Without influxes. Not fetters. Not ties. Not floods. Not yokes. Not hindrances. Not attachments. With objects. Not consciousness. Mental concomitants. Associated with consciousness. Conjoined with consciousness. Arising from consciousness. Co-existent with consciousness. Following consciousness. Conjoined with and arising from consciousness. Conjoined with, arising from, and co-existent with consciousness. Conjoined with, arising from, and following consciousness. External. Not clingings. Not clung to. Not objects of clinging… Not defilements… Not to be abandoned by seeing. Not to be abandoned by development. Not having causes to be abandoned by seeing. Not having causes to be abandoned by development. May be with initial application, may be without initial application. May be with sustained application, may be without sustained application. May be with joy, may be without joy. May be accompanied by joy, may not be accompanied by joy. May be accompanied by happiness, may not be accompanied by happiness. May be accompanied by equanimity, may not be accompanied by equanimity. Not belonging to the sense-sphere. Not belonging to the form-sphere. Not belonging to the formless-sphere. Not included. May be leading to liberation, may not be leading to liberation. May be certain, may be uncertain. Unsurpassed. Without defilement. The section of questions. The analysis of the foundations of mindfulness is finished.

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