Buddhavagga

Aṅguttara Nikāya, Paṭhamacetovimuttiphala Sutta (Freedom of Heart is the Fruit)

• Five practices lead to freedom of heart and wisdom: meditating on body’s ugliness, repulsiveness of food, dissatisfaction with the world, impermanence of all conditions, and awareness of one’s own death.
• Freedom of heart and wisdom signify overcoming ignorance, future births, craving, five lower fetters, and the conceit of ‘I am’.
• This liberation is metaphorically described as lifting the cross-bar, filling in the trench, pulling up the pillar, being unbarred, and a noble one with banner and burden put down, detached.

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Anasuropa — absence of abruptness

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