Development One who wants to develop this should go into solitary retreat and exercise attention wisely in this way: Death will take place; the life faculty will be interrupted, or"Death, death". If he exercises his attention unwisely in recollecting the (possible) death of an agreeable person, sorrow arise, as in a mother on recollecting the death of her beloved child she bore; and gladness arises in recollecting the death of a disagreeable person, as in enemies on recollecting the death of their enemies; and no sense of urgency arises on the death of neutral people, as happens in a corpse-burner on seeing a dead body; and anxiety arises on recollecting one*s own death, as happens in a timid person on seeing a murderer with a poised dagger. In all that there is neither mindfulness nor sense of urgency nor knowledge. So he should look here and there at beings that have been killed or have died, and advert to the death of being already dead but formerly seen enjoying good things, doing so mindfulness, with a sense of urgency and with knowledge, after which he can exercise his attention in the way beginning "Death will take place". By doing so he exercises wisely. When some exercise it merely in this way, their hindrances get suppressed, their mindfulness becomes established with dealth as its object, and the meditation subject reaches access. Bhadantacariya Buddhaghosa
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