I think that the catechism as you call it is not meant as a "how to" guide but rather as a "what to" guide and also as a way to lay out a roadmap of things that happen along the way...I'll reproduce it here:tiltbillings wrote: I assume there are practical ways doing what is said here, otherwise the catechism of the OP really doesn’t say anything.
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SN 55.3 wrote:
"You should further develop six qualities conducive to clear knowing. [1] Remain focused on inconstancy in all fabrications, [2] percipient of stress in what is inconstant, [3] percipient of not-self in what is stressful, [4] percipient of abandoning, [5] percipient of dispassion, [6] percipient of cessation. That's how you should train yourself."
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It seems to me that the purpose of this is to show a linear representation of steps along a theoretic path from the realization of inconstancy of all fabrications through the intermediary steps ending at being percipient of cessation.....seems like the qualities are linked with each dependent on the preceding one.....so here it is itself sort of describing a process to get from here to there although it does not give the specific method to "accomplish" each of the steps..........I tried to get an online copy of SN55.3 but didn't find one.....I wouldn't be surprised if it also contained some information clarifying each of the six steps.....but of course I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't either.
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