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(488) A person who being pure in thought and body, concentrates his mind sitting in a comfortable posture, facing the East or the North, becomes absorbed in perfect meditation.
(489) A person (engaged) in meditation should sit in the palyanka posture, stop all activities of mind, speech and body, fix the gaze of his eyes on the tip of his nose and slow down his expiration and inspiration.
(490) Having condemned all one's evil conduct, having begged pardon of all the living beings, having renounced negligence, having steadied one's mind, one ought to undertake meditation until the thing meditated looks like standing in front of oneself
(491) In the case of monks who have steadied all their mental, vocal and bodily activity and who have thoroughly concentrated their mind on meditation, it does not matter at all whether they stay in a village full of people or in an empty forest.
(492) A monk devoted to penance and desirous of practising meditation should neither entertain pleasant nor unpleasant thoughts about the objects of senses.
(493) A monk becomes quite steady in his meditation if he has understood thoroughly the nature of mundane existence, is deviod of all attachment, is fearless, is desireles, and has developed an attitude of indifference to the world.
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