From: thangolossus@gmail.com

Thang thusly plagiarised:

"6. The Nine Cemetery Contemplations
(1) And further, monks, as if a monk sees a body dead one, two, or
three days; swollen, blue and festering, thrown in the charnel ground,
he then applies this perception to his own body thus: "Verily, also my
own body is of the same nature; such it will become and will not
escape it."

Thus he lives contemplating the body in the body internally, or he
lives contemplating the body in the body externally, or he lives
contemplating the body in the body internally and externally. He lives contemplating origination-factors in the body, or he lives
contemplating dissolution factors in the body, or he lives
contemplating origination-and-dissolution-factors in the body. Or his mindfulness is established with the thought: "The body exists," to the
extent necessary just for knowledge and mindfulness, and he lives
detached, and clings to nothing in the world. Thus also, monks, a monk
lives contemplating the body in the body.

(2) And further, monks, as if a monk sees a body thrown in the charnel
ground, being eaten by crows, hawks, vultures, dogs, jackals or by
different kinds of worms, he then applies this perception to his own
body thus: "Verily, also my own body is of the same nature; such it
will become and will not escape it."

Thus he lives contemplating the body in the body...

(3) And further, monks, as if a monk sees a body thrown in the charnel
ground and reduced to a skeleton with some flesh and blood attached to
it, held together by the tendons...

(4) And further, monks, as if a monk sees a body thrown in the charnel
ground and reduced to a skeleton blood-besmeared and without flesh,
held together by the tendons...

(5) And further, monks, as if a monk sees a body thrown in the charnel
ground and reduced to a skeleton without flesh and blood, held
together by the tendons...

(6) And further, monks, as if a monk sees a body thrown in the charnel
ground and reduced to disconnected bones, scattered in all
directions_here a bone of the hand, there a bone of the foot, a shin
bone, a thigh bone, the pelvis, spine and skull...

(7) And further, monks, as if a monk sees a body thrown in the charnel
ground, reduced to bleached bones of conchlike color...

(8) And further, monks, as if a monk sees a body thrown in the charnel
ground reduced to bones, more than a year-old, lying in a heap...

(9) And further, monks, as if a monk sees a body thrown in the charnel
ground, reduced to bones gone rotten and become dust, he then applies
this perception to his own body thus: "Verily, also my own body is of
the same nature; such it will become and will not escape it."

Thus he lives contemplating the body in the body internally, or he
lives contemplating the body in the body externally, or he lives
contemplating the body in the body internally and externally. He lives contemplating origination factors in the body, or he lives
contemplating dissolution factors in the body, or he lives
contemplating origination-and-dissolution factors in the body. Or his mindfulness is established with the thought: "The body exists," to the
extent necessary just for knowledge and mindfulness, and he lives
detached, and clings to nothing in the world. Thus also, monks, a monk
lives contemplating the body in the body."

Satipatthana Sutta: The Foundations of Mindfulness
translated from the Pali by
Nyanasatta Thera

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