The Discourse about the Great Emancipation

The Third Chapter for Recitation
3) Without perceiving forms internally,
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someone sees forms
externally, limited, beautiful or ugly, and having mastered them,
he is one who perceives thus: ‘I know, I see’. This is the third
means of (mind) mastery.
4) Without perceiving forms internally, someone sees forms
externally, unlimited, beautiful or ugly, and having mastered them,
he is one who perceives thus: ‘I know, I see’. This is the fourth
means of (mind) mastery.
5) Without perceiving forms internally, someone sees forms
externally, 93 blue, blue-coloured, of blue appearance, shiny blue,
just as the flower called Ummā is blue, blue-coloured, of blue
appearance, shiny blue, or just as there is Banaras cloth smoothed
on both sides that is blue, blue-coloured, of blue appearance, shiny
blue, so, without perceiving forms internally, someone sees forms
externally, blue, blue-coloured, of blue appearance, shiny blue, and
having mastered them, he is one who perceives thus: ‘I know, I
see’. This is the fifth means of (mind) mastery.
92 Comm: alābhitāya vā anatthikatāya vā ajjhattarūpe
parikammasaññāvirahito; without perception of the preliminary object on
an internal form, either because he did not obtain it or because he did not
need it.
93 This and what follows refers to the kasiṇa excercies, whereby one focuses
on a specific colour and obtains absorption that way.
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