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  1. Book search result icon A Meditator’s Tools Mindfulness of Death
     … Then King Pasenadi of Kosala approached the Blessed One in the middle of the day and, on arrival, having bowed down, sat down to one side. As he was sitting there, the Blessed One said to him: “Well now, your majesty, where are you coming from in the middle of the day?” “Just now, lord, I was engaged in the sort of royal affairs … 
  2. Book search result icon A Meditator’s Tools The First Six Recollections
     … Now at that time—it being the uposatha day—Visākhā, Migāra’s mother, went to the Blessed One in the middle of the day and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As she was sitting there the Blessed One said to her, “Well now, Visākhā, why are you coming in the middle of the day?” “Today I’m observing … 
  3. Book search result icon A Meditator’s Tools Mindfulness Immersed in the Body
     … If a strong man were to tip it in any way at all, would water spill out?” “Yes, lord.” “In the same way, when anyone has developed & pursued mindfulness immersed in the body, then whichever of the six higher knowledges he turns his mind to know and realize, he can witness them for himself whenever there is an opening. “Suppose there were a rectangular … 
  4. Book search result icon A Meditator’s Tools Mindfulness of In-&-Out Breathing
     … The mind should be made to settle down in this way. The mind should be unified in this way. The mind should be concentrated in this way.’ Then eventually he [the first] will become one who has attained both internal tranquility of awareness & insight into phenomena through heightened discernment.” — AN 4:94 § 38. “I have also taught the step-by-step cessation of fabrications … 
  5. Book search result icon A Meditator’s Tools More on Recollection of the Triple Gem
     … Attend to things in this way, don’t attend to them in that. Let go of this, enter and remain in that.’ This, Kevaṭṭa, is called the marvel of instruction. “Then there is the case where a Tathāgata appears in the world, worthy and rightly self-awakened. He teaches the Dhamma admirable in its beginning, admirable in its middle, admirable in its end. He … 
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