The Discourse about the Great Emancipation

The Third Chapter for Recitation
6) Without perceiving forms internally, someone sees forms
externally, yellow, yellow-coloured, of yellow appearance, shiny
yellow, just as the flower called Kaṇikāra is yellow, yellowcoloured,
of yellow appearance, shiny yellow, or just as there is
Banaras cloth smoothed on both sides that is yellow, yellowcoloured,
of yellow appearance, shiny yellow, so, without
perceiving forms internally, someone sees forms externally, yellow,
yellow colour, of yellow appearance, shiny yellow, and having
mastered them, he is one who perceives thus: ‘I know, I see’. This is
the sixth means of (mind) mastery.
7) Without perceiving forms internally, someone sees forms
externally, red, red-coloured, of red appearance, shiny red, just as
the flower called Bandhujīvaka is red, red-coloured, of red
appearance, shiny red, or just as there is Banaras cloth smoothed
on both sides that is red, red-coloured, of red appearance, shiny
red, so, without perceiving forms internally, someone sees forms
externally, red, red-coloured, of red appearance, shiny red, and
having mastered them, he is one who perceives thus: ‘I know, I
see’. This is the seventh means of (mind) mastery.
8) Without perceiving forms internally, someone sees forms
externally, white, white-coloured, of white appearance, shiny
white, just as the Osadhī star, is white, white-coloured, of white
appearance, shiny white, or just as there is Banaras cloth smoothed
on both sides that is white, white-coloured, of white appearance,
shiny white, so, without perceiving forms internally, someone sees
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