Upasika Kee Nanayon

The Practice in Brief by Upasika Ki Those who practice the Dharma should train themselves to understand in the following stages.

The training which is easy to learn gives immediate results and is suitable for every time, every place

for people of every age and either sex, is the study in the school of this body.

A fathom long, a cubit wide, and a span thick, with its perceiving mind in charge.

This body has many things, ranging from the crude to the subtle, which are well worth knowing.

To begin with, know that the body is composed of various physical properties, the major ones being the properties of earth, water, fire and wind.

the minor ones being the aspects which adhere to the major ones.

Things like colour, smell, shape and so on.

These properties are unstable and inconstant, stressful and full of filth.

If you look into them deeply,

you will see that there is no substance to them at all.

They are simply impersonal conditions with nothing worth calling me or mine.

When you can clearly perceive the body in these terms,

you will be able to let go of any clinging or attachment to it as an entity, yourself, someone else, this or that.

The second step is to deal with mental phenomena, feelings, perceptions, thought formations and consciousness.

Focus on keeping track of the truth that these are characterized by arising, persisting and then disbanding.

In other words,

Their nature is to arise and pass away.

Arise and pass away.

When you investigate to see this truth, you'll be able to let go of your attachments to mental phenomena as entities, as yourself.