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 Monks, these nine perceptions, when developed & pursued, are of great fruit, of great benefit. They gain a footing in the deathless and have the deathless as their final end. Which nine?  | 
          
      
       
 
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 The perception of unattractiveness (of the body)  | 
          
      
       
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 The perception of death.  | 
          
      
       
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 The perception of the foulness in food.  | 
          
      
       
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 The perception of no-delight in any world.  | 
         
      
       
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 The perception of inconstancy.  | 
         
 
      
       
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 The perception of stress in inconstancy.  | 
         
 
      
       
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 The perception of not-self in stress.  | 
         
 
      
       
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 The perception of abandoning.  | 
          
      
       
 
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 The perception of dispassion.  | 
          
      
       
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 These nine perceptions, when developed & pursued, are of great fruit, of great benefit. They gain a footing in the deathless and have the deathless as their final end.  |         
      
       
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