The Four Guardian Meditations

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The Four Guardian Meditations

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Are the Four Guardian Meditations found as a single teaching in the suttas? Thank you :smile:
1. Buddhanussati – recollection virtues of the Buddha
The Buddha is unfailingly pure. Because of his unexcelled Awakening, and because he trains others to awaken, he is known as the Awakened/Awakening One.

2. Mettabhavana – loving kindness
All living beings — human, non-human, & animal — who are searching for happiness: May they all be happy and, through their happiness, secure.

3. Asubha – contemplation of the 32 parts of the body
This conglomeration of things from dead bodies, like hair of the head & hair of the body: The body as a whole is disgusting and, in terms of such things as its colors, unclean.

4. Maranasati – contemplation of death
Death, the destruction of the faculty of life, will come to all beings. Death is certain, but life is not.

https://simplesuttas.wordpress.com/2012 ... ditations/
There is always an official executioner. If you try to take his place, It is like trying to be a master carpenter and cutting wood. If you try to cut wood like a master carpenter, you will only hurt your hand.

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