Meditation form

An individual examines and reflects closely upon the body however it be placed or disposed as composed of (only) primary elements:

• the earth element
• the water element
• the fire element
• the air element

As a skillful butcher or his apprentice, having slaughtered a cow and divided it into portions were sitting at the junction of four high roads, an individual examines and reflects closely upon this body elements.

There are 9 steps for this form of meditation.  This form will practice mindfulness by using the true nature of the human-body as a vehicle of understanding. 

Meditation form

An individual should look at the body as a corpse. 

• How a corpse will change its nature
• one day passed death, two days passed death, three days passed death
• swollen, blue and festering
• discarded in the charnel ground
• s/he then compares it to his own body.

  
The individual will perceive the body discarded in the charnel ground

• being devoured by crows
• being devoured by hawks
• being devoured by vultures
• being devoured by herons
• being devoured by dogs
• being devoured by tigers
• being devoured by leopards
• being devoured by jackals
• being devoured by various kinds of worms
• s/he then compares it to his own body.

The individual sees her/his body discarded in the charnel ground

• that is just a skeleton held together by the tendons, with some flesh and blood still adhering to it
• s/he then compares it to his own body
• the body is perceived as discarded in the charnel ground, that is just a skeleton held together by the tendons, blood-besmeared, fleshless
• s/he then compares it to his own body
  

Detaching from craving and wrong views

• the body is perceived as discarded in the charnel ground,
• that is just a skeleton held together by the tendons without flesh and blood, he then compares it to his own body
  
• the body is perceived as discarded in the charnel ground, that is just loose bones scattered in all directions;
  • at one place bones of a hand
  • at another place bones of a foot
  • at another place ankle-bones
  • at another place shin-bones
  • at another place thigh-bones
  • at another place hip-bones
  • at another place rib-bones
  • at another place spinal-bones
  • at another place shoulder-bones
  • at another place neck-bones
  • at another place the jawbone
  • at another place the teeth
  • at another place the skull
• S/he then compares it to his own body
  • the body is perceived as discarded in the charnel ground
  • that is just white bones of conch-like colour
  • s/he then compares it to his own body
    
  • the body is perceived as discarded in the charnel ground
  • that is bones more than a year old, lying in a heap
  • he then compares it to his own body
    
  • the body is perceived as discarded in the charnel ground
  • that is just rotted bones, crumbling to dust
  • s/he then compares it to his own body.
  • Hence, understands the true nature of her/his body, it will become like that and cannot escape from it.