Patikulamanasikara as the most powerful weapon against lust

loneloan · Dec 2, 2022

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patikulamanasikara

This meditation involves meditating on 31 different body parts:
In a few discourses, these 31 body parts are contextualized within the framework of the mahābhūta (the elements) so that the earth element is exemplified by the body parts from head hair to feces, and the water element is exemplified by bile through urine.[16]

A few other discourses preface contemplation of these 31 body parts in the following manner: "Herein ... a monk contemplates this body upward from the soles of the feet, downward from the top of the hair, enclosed in skin, as being full of many impurities."[17]
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"Just as if a sack with openings at both ends were full of various kinds of grain – wheat, rice, mung beans, kidney beans, sesame seeds, husked rice – and a man with good eyesight, pouring it out, were to reflect, 'This is wheat. This is rice. These are mung beans. These are kidney beans. These are sesame seeds. This is husked rice'; in the same way, the monk reflects on this very body from the soles of the feet on up, from the crown of the head on down, surrounded by skin and full of various kinds of unclean things [as identified in the above enumeration of bodily organs and fluids]...."[21]
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I have been doing this,specially and emphatically combined with Trataka .Now I see myself as well,as well as the rest of humans in the street and public,like this. I find it not disgusting or terrifying,but oddly calming and soothing. this IS what we are;why protest against the facts?
I even commited fault of Pride yesterday and looked for photos of "top models" girls,and..ha! I still saw them as corpses in varying stuff of putrefaction.

Liege Blåhaj · Dec 2, 2022

Xe tried. Sometimes it would work, sometimes not. Xe found imagining the contents of stomachs particularly stomach-churing. Xe's interested in returning to this. Thanks for posting.

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