{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an10.60/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an10.60","id":"suttacentral_an10.60","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an10.60/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. Now at that time Venerable Girim\u0101nanda was sick, suffering, gravely ill. Then Venerable \u0100nanda went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: \u201cSir, Venerable Girim\u0101nanda is sick, suffering, gravely ill. Sir, please go to Venerable Girim\u0101nanda out of sympathy.\u201d \u201c\u0100nanda, if you were to recite to the mendicant Girim\u0101nanda these ten perceptions, it\u2019s possible that after hearing them his illness will die down on the spot. What ten? The perceptions of impermanence, not-self, ugliness, drawbacks, giving up, fading away, cessation, dissatisfaction with the whole world, impermanence of all conditions, and mindfulness of breathing. And what is the perception of impermanence? It\u2019s when a mendicant has gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut, and reflects like this: \u2018Form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness are impermanent.\u2019 And so they meditate observing impermanence in the five grasping aggregates. This is called the perception of impermanence. And what is the perception of not-self? It\u2019s when a mendicant has gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut, and reflects like this: \u2018The eye and sights, ear and sounds, nose and smells, tongue and tastes, body and touches, and mind and ideas are not-self.\u2019 And so they meditate observing not-self in the six interior and exterior sense fields. This is called the perception of not-self. And what is the perception of ugliness? It\u2019s when a mendicant examines their own body up from the soles of the feet and down from the tips of the hairs, wrapped in skin and full of many kinds of filth. \u2018In this body there is head hair, body hair, nails, teeth, skin, flesh, sinews, bones, bone marrow, kidneys, heart, liver, diaphragm, spleen, lungs, intestines, mesentery, undigested food, feces, bile, phlegm, pus, blood, sweat, fat, tears, grease, saliva, snot, synovial fluid, urine.\u2019 And so they meditate observing ugliness in this body. This is called the perception of ugliness. And what is the perception of drawbacks? It\u2019s when a mendicant has gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut, and reflects like this: \u2018This body has much suffering and many drawbacks. For this body is beset with many kinds of affliction, such as the following. Diseases of the eye, inner ear, nose, tongue, body, head, outer ear, mouth, teeth, and lips. Cough, asthma, catarrh, inflammation, fever, stomach ache, fainting, dysentery, gastric pain, cholera, leprosy, boils, eczema, tuberculosis, epilepsy, herpes, itch, scabs, smallpox, scabies, hemorrhage, diabetes, piles, pimples, and ulcers. Afflictions stemming from disorders of bile, phlegm, wind, or their conjunction. Afflictions caused by change in weather, by not taking care of yourself, by exertion, or as the result of past deeds. Cold, heat, hunger, thirst, defecation, and urination.\u2019 And so they meditate observing drawbacks in this body. This is called the perception of drawbacks. And what is the perception of giving up? It\u2019s when a mendicant doesn\u2019t tolerate a sensual, malicious, or cruel thought that has arisen, and they don\u2019t tolerate any bad, unskillful qualities that have arisen, but give them up, dispel them, eliminate them, and obliterate them. This is called the perception of giving up. And what is the perception of fading away? It\u2019s when a mendicant has gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut, and reflects like this: \u2018This is peaceful; this is sublime\u2014that is, the stilling of all activities, the letting go of all attachments, the ending of craving, fading away, extinguishment.\u2019 This is called the perception of fading away. And what is the perception of cessation? It\u2019s when a mendicant has gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut, and reflects like this: \u2018This is peaceful; this is sublime\u2014that is, the stilling of all activities, the letting go of all attachments, the ending of craving, cessation, extinguishment.\u2019 This is called the perception of cessation. And what is the perception of dissatisfaction with the whole world? It\u2019s when a mendicant lives giving up and not grasping on to the attraction and grasping to the world, the mental fixation, insistence, and underlying tendencies. This is called the perception of dissatisfaction with the whole world. And what is the perception of the impermanence of all conditions? It\u2019s when a mendicant is horrified, repelled, and disgusted with all conditions. This is called the perception of the impermanence of all conditions. And what is mindfulness of breathing? It\u2019s when a mendicant has gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut, sits down cross-legged, sets their body straight, and brings mindfulness to the present. Just mindful, they breathe in. Mindful, they breathe out. Breathing in heavily they know: \u2018I\u2019m breathing in heavily.\u2019 Breathing out heavily they know: \u2018I\u2019m breathing out heavily.\u2019 Breathing in lightly they know: \u2018I\u2019m breathing in lightly.\u2019 Breathing out lightly they know: \u2018I\u2019m breathing out lightly.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe in experiencing the whole body.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe out experiencing the whole body.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe in stilling the physical process.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe out stilling the physical process.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe in experiencing rapture.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe out experiencing rapture.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe in experiencing bliss.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe out experiencing bliss.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe in experiencing the mental process.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe out experiencing the mental process.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe in stilling the mental process.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe out stilling the mental process.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe in experiencing the mind.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe out experiencing the mind.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe in gladdening the mind.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe out gladdening the mind.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe in immersing the mind in sam\u0101dhi.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe out immersing the mind in sam\u0101dhi.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe in freeing the mind.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe out freeing the mind.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe in observing impermanence.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe out observing impermanence.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe in observing fading away.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe out observing fading away.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe in observing cessation.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe out observing cessation.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe in observing letting go.\u2019 They practice like this: \u2018I\u2019ll breathe out observing letting go.\u2019 This is called mindfulness of breathing. If you were to recite to the mendicant Girim\u0101nanda these ten perceptions, it\u2019s possible that after hearing them his illness will die down on the spot.\u201d Then \u0100nanda, having learned these ten perceptions from the Buddha himself, went to Girim\u0101nanda and recited them. Then after Girim\u0101nanda heard these ten perceptions his illness died down on the spot. And that\u2019s how he recovered from that illness.","title":"With Girim\u0101nanda","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":1201}