31/01/2024
Aṅguttara Nikāya, Paṭhamacetovimuttiphala Sutta (Freedom of Heart is the Fruit)
• Five practices lead to freedom of heart and wisdom: meditating on body’s ugliness, repulsiveness of food, dissatisfaction with the world, impermanence of all conditions, and awareness of one’s own death.
• Freedom of heart and wisdom signify overcoming ignorance, future births, craving, five lower fetters, and the conceit of ‘I am’.
• This liberation is metaphorically described as lifting the cross-bar, filling in the trench, pulling up the pillar, being unbarred, and a noble one with banner and burden put down, detached.