Understanding comes by the 18 principal insights:
1: Reflection on impermanence
leaves the illusion of permanence,
2: Reflection on pain renounces the
misapprehension of pleasure,
3: Reflection on no-self evaporates the
imagination of a my-self,
4: Reflection on dispassion and disillusion
abandons naive delight,
5: Reflection on disgust eradicates voracious and insatiable greed,
6:
Reflection on ceasing desists from blind and initiating origination,
7:
Reflection on relinquishment releases the lock of grasped clinging,
8:
Reflection on fragility leaves the misconception of compact solidity,
9:
Reflection on the breakup of all constructions shuts down
accumulation,
10: Reflection on change corrects the deception of any lasting constancy,
11: Reflection on the signless eliminates the captivating appearance of a
sign,
12: Reflection on the desireless diminishes the feverish urge within
all craving,
13: Reflection on voidness erases the insistence on the self-deception:
'I am...',
14: Reflection on higher understanding uproots clinging to the
fix idea
of a core,
15: Reflection on direct knowledge & vision removes confused
misinterpretation,
16: Reflection on danger extirpates false assumption of
reliance on the unstable,
17: Reflection on resolute contemplation shelves the neglect of
non-contemplation,
18: Reflection on turning away exterminates mistaken
insistence on
self-bondage...
