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Day 89 Text & Translation: Dīghajāṇu Sutta  (AN 8.54) Day 90  Uṭṭhāna Sampadā (accomplishment of persistent moral effort) Day 91  Ārakkha Sampadā (accomplishment of protection) Day 92  Kalyāṇamittatā (accomplishment of noble friends) Day 93   Samajīvikatā (accomplishment of ​Balanced Finances) Day 94   Saddhā Sampadā (accomplishment in Trust) Day 95  Sīla Sampadā (accomplishment in discipline) Day 96  Cāga Sampadā (accomplishment in Giving and Giving Up) Day 97   Paññā Sampadā (accomplishment of Wisdom) Day 98 Full Review

  1.6. Kāyānupassanā Navasivathikāpabba (Section on the  Nine Contemplations of the Body’s Return to Nature as Mindfulness of the Body) 1.6.1   Uddhumātaka Swollen — the body bloated soon after death. Puna ca paraṃ bhikkhave bhikkhu seyyathāpi passeyya sarīraṃ sīvathikāya chaḍḍitaṃ ekāhamataṃ vā dvīhamataṃ vā tīhamataṃ vā uddhumātakaṃ vinīlakaṃ vipubbakajātaṃ, so imameva kāyaṃ upasaṃharati: 'ayampi kho kāyo evaṃ dhammo evambhāvī evaṃ anatīto'ti.  Puna – again ca – and paraṃ – further, beyond that bhikkhave – monks bhikkhu – a monk seyyathāpi – just as if passeyya – should see sarīraṃ – a body sīvathikāya – in a charnel ground chaḍḍitaṃ – discarded, thrown away ekāhamataṃ – one-day dead vā – or dvīhamataṃ – two days dead vā – or tīhamataṃ – three days dead vā – or uddhumātakaṃ – swollen vinīlakaṃ – blueish vipubbakajātaṃ – festering, oozing with pus so – he imameva – this very kāyaṃ – body upasaṃharati – applies, compares, refle...

1. True Nobility Lies in Non-Clinging to the Five Aggregates The sappurisā (noble ones) “give up everything everywhere,” meaning they no longer cling to the five aggregates — form ( rūpa ), feeling ( vedanā ), perception ( saññā ), volitional formations ( saṅkhārā ), and consciousness ( viññāṇa ). Their freedom is rooted in wisdom that sees these aggregates as impermanent ( anicca ), unsatisfactory ( dukkha ), and not-self ( anattā ). True nobility, therefore, is the abandonment of identification with these aggregates and resting in detachment. 2. Equanimity in the Face of Life’s Dualities The Buddha teaches that the unwise oscillate between happiness and unhappiness, while the wise abide in steadiness through upekkhā (equanimity), born of insight into the impermanence of all conditioned phenomena. To avoid falling into this duality of mental states, one needs to cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path, observing both pleasure and pain as transient experiences rather than sources of cling...