I don't make much use of that particular sutta, but the instructions regarding how to do the fourth tetrad say:daverupa wrote:By breaking experience down into simpler bits, can you give me an example of what you mean here? Are you suggesting that one is encouraged to see experience in terms of khandas, or ayatanas, or dhatus? That seeing this is what needs to be trained in, say, Tetrad IV of anapanasati? I want to be sure I understand how you see it.mikenz66 wrote:Not so much a "notion" as the "approach" of breaking experience down into simpler bits.daverupa wrote: What does holding a two truths notion actually help you to understand?
So in this case it's talking about dhammas.On that occasion the monk remains focused on mental qualities in & of themselves — ardent, alert, & mindful — putting aside greed & distress with reference to the world.
The most obvious "cutting and slicing" is in the Satipatthana Sutta:
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"Furthermore...just as a skilled butcher or his apprentice, having killed a cow, would sit at a crossroads cutting it up into pieces, the monk contemplates this very body — however it stands, however it is disposed — in terms of properties: 'In this body there is the earth property, the liquid property, the fire property, & the wind property.'
Mike