Nyanamoli thera |
39.So there are these thirty-seven states partaking of enlightenment. Now, in the prior stage when mundane insight is occurring, they are found in a plurality of consciousnesses as follows: the foundation of mindfulness consisting in contemplation of the body [is found] in one discerning the body in the fourteen ways;10 the foundation of mindfulness consisting in contemplation of feeling, in one discerning feeling in the nine ways; the foundation of mindfulness consisting in the contemplation of mind, in one discerning the [manner of] consciousness in sixteen ways; the foundation of mindfulness consisting in contemplation of mental objects, in one discerning mental objects in the five ways. |