Subject: What_Buddha_Said 2830: Foul Flesh Frame! From: "Bhikkhu Samahita" Date: 11/18/2014 7:19 AM To: "'1. 1A'" , "'1. 2A'" Friends: The Body is a bone-frame plastered with fat and skin: The body's nature: 300 bones, jointed by 180 joints, sewn into a chain by 900 sinews, plastered over with pieces of flesh, enveloped by inner membrane, fat and outer skin, with 9 openings constantly dribbling and trickling with tears, snot, saliva, slime, urine and excrement. Its bowels are inhabited by many fold bacteria, parasites and worms, the home of disease, the source of painful states, perpetually oozing from the nine orifices like a chronic open boil, and from thousands skin pores the stale sweat seeps, with bluebottles and their like buzzing round it, which when untended with tooth brush, washing, shaving, bathing, underclothing and dressing up looks just like a living corpse! In its natural wild then a body is a stinking nauseating repulsiveness, but by concealing its private parts under several cloths, by daubing it with various perfumes and salves, by pranking it with jewellery, it is faked up into a state being mistaken as 'I' & 'mine'! So men delight in women, and women in men, without perceiving the true nature of this body's characteristic foulness, now masked by this adventitious adornment. But in the ultimate sense, there is no place on any body even the size of an atom fit to lust after! Comically we loove the whole of this 'my precious temple', but when any such bits of it as head hairs, body hairs, nails, teeth, saliva, snot, excrement or urine have dropped off the body, then beings will not touch them! Though somewhat absurd, they are now ashamed, humiliated & disgusted with exactly the same matter as they adored before! But as long as any one of these disgusting things remains inside the body, though it is just as repulsive when inside, they take this body as agreeable, desirable, permanent, pleasant, & 'my beautiful self', since they are wrapped in the murk of ignorance and dyed with unseen and unrecognised affective greed for a physical self... Vism I 196 More on this seeing this body (Kaya) as it really is: A foul frame of bones & flesch: ka-yagata-sati, Meditation_On_the_Body, The_9_Corpse_Meditations, The_32_Parts, Evil-smelling_body, Body_as_only_Form, Meditation_On_the_Body_Kayagata-Sati, The_Skeleton, Body_Contemplation, Corpse_Meditation, Immersing_Body_in_Mind Foul Flesh Frame! Have a nice & noble day! signature.pic Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Sama-hita _/\_ ] http://What-Buddha-Said.net -- -- Related Buddhist site: http://What-Buddha-Said.net Group Home: http://groups.google.com/group/What_Buddha_Said Edit your membership to unsubscribed, normal email, summary, digest or no email here: http://groups.google.com/group/What_Buddha_Said/subscribe May all beings become thus Happy! Friendship is the GREATEST! Have a Nice Day! Bhikkhu Samahita --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "What_Buddha_Said" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to what_buddha_said+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.