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Of the forty
objects meditated upon as kammatthana, the first ten are 'things that one can behold directly', '
kasina', or 'a whole':
(1) earth, (2) water, (3) fire, (4) air, wind, (5) blue, green, (6) yellow, (7) red, (8) white, (9) enclosed space, (10) bright light.
The next ten are objects of repulsion (
asubha):
(1) swollen corpse, (2) discolored, bluish, corpse, (3) festering corpse, (4) fissured corpse, (5) gnawed corpse, (6,7) dismembered, or hacked and scattered, corpse, (8) bleeding corpse, (9) worm-eaten corpse, (10) skeleton.
Ten are recollections (
anussati):
First three recollections are of the virtues of the
Three Jewels:
(1)
Buddha
(2)
Dharma
(3)
Sangha
Next three are recollections of the virtues of:
(4) morality (
Śīla)
(5) liberality (
cāga)
(6) the wholesome attributes of Devas
Recollections of:
(7) the body (
kāya)
(8) death (see
Upajjhatthana Sutta)
(9) the breath (
prāna) or breathing (
ānāpāna)
(10) peace (see
Nibbana).
Four are stations of Brahma (
Brahma-vihara):
(1) unconditional kindness and goodwill (
mettā)
(2) compassion (
karuna)
(3) sympathetic joy over another's success (
mudita)
(4) evenmindedness, equanimity (
upekkha)
Four are formless states (four
arūpajhānas):
(1) infinite space
(2) infinite consciousness
(3) infinite
nothingness
(4) neither perception nor non-perception.
One is of perception of disgust of food (
aharepatikulasanna).
The last is analysis of the four elements (
catudhatuvavatthana): earth (
pathavi), water (
apo), fire (
tejo), air (
vayo).
