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1. A Meditator’s Tools The First Six Recollections
    … And how is the defiled mind cleansed through the proper technique? There is the case where a disciple of the noble ones recollects his own virtues.… As he is recollecting virtue, his mind is cleansed, and joy arises; the defilements of his mind are abandoned. He is thus called a disciple of the noble ones undertaking the virtue-uposatha. He lives with virtue. It … 
2. A Meditator’s Tools The Ten Recollections
    … Which one thing? Recollection of virtue.…” § 5. “One thing—when developed & pursued—leads solely to disenchantment, to dispassion, to cessation, to stilling, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to unbinding. Which one thing? Recollection of generosity.…” § 6. “One thing—when developed & pursued—leads solely to disenchantment, to dispassion, to cessation, to stilling, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to unbinding. Which one thing? Recollection … 
3. A Meditator’s Tools Introduction
    … recollection of the Buddha, recollection of the Dhamma, recollection of the Saṅgha, recollection of virtue, recollection of generosity, recollection of the devas, and recollection of stilling. The other three are called mindfulness (sati) practices: mindfulness of in-and-out breathing, mindfulness of death, and mindfulness immersed in the body. However, the Pāli words for mindfulness and recollection—sati and anussati—are intimately related. In … 
4. A Meditator’s Tools Mindfulness of In-&-Out Breathing
    … talk on modesty, contentment, seclusion, non-entanglement, arousing persistence, virtue, concentration, discernment, release, and the knowledge & vision of release.… He lives in the wilderness, in an isolated dwelling place. “He reflects on the mind as it is released [see step 12 in the sixteen steps described in §30]. “Endowed with these five qualities, a monk pursuing mindfulness of in-&-out breathing will in no … 
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