The Path of Purity Part II (of Concentration)

III.—Acceptance of the Subjects^ of Meditation 129or not increasing, object, plane, grasp, cause, suitableconduct.The Forty Subjects of Meditation.There (in the Table of Contents) under " exposition of thenumber"—mention has been made of the forty subjects ofmeditation, to wit, the Ten " Devices," the Ten Foul Things,the Ten Recollections, the Four Divine States, the FourFormless States, the One Perception, the Onp Specification.Of these the Ten Devices are earth-device, water-device,heat-device, air-device, blue-green device, yellow device, reddevice, white device, light device, separated space device.A swollen thing, discoloured thing, festering thing, fissuredthing, mangled thing, dismembered thing, cut and dismemberedthing, bloody thing, worm-foul thing, skeleton:—theseare the Ten Foul Things.Buddha-recollection, Law-recollection, Order-recollection,morahty-recollection, liberality-recollection, ^em-recollection,death-recollection, body-mindfulness, respiration-mindfulness,calm-recollection—these are the Ten Recollections,[111] Love, pity, sympathy, equanimity—these are the FourDivine States.The sphere of unlimited space, the sphere of unlimitedconsciousness, the sphere of nothingness, the sphere of theneither perceptible nor imperceptible,—these are the FourFormless States.The perception of the abominableness of food is the OnePerception.The One Specification is that of the four elements.Determination by way of exposition of the number shouldthus be known." By way of Inducement of access and ecstasy " is as followsthese ten subjects of meditation, namely, the eight recollections,excepting mindfulness as to the body, and mindfulnessas to respiration, perception of the abominableness of food,specification of the four elements—induce access. The restinduce ecstasy."By way of the different kinds of Jhana," is as follows:here among the things inducing ecstasy the Ten Devices,9