A question arises: ‘How can joy and happiness
arise with the repulsiveness of the skeleton as object?’
The answer is that, although you are concentrating
on the repulsiveness of the skeleton, you have under
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taken this meditation because you have understood the
benefits of it, and understand that it will help you to
eventually attain freedom from ageing, sickness, and
death. Joy and happiness can arise also because you
have removed the defilements of the five hindrances,
which make the mind hot and tired.
It is just like a scavenger would be delighted to
see a big heap of garbage, thinking, ‘I will earn a lot of
money from this.’ Or like a person who is severely ill
would be happy and joyful when relieved by vomiting
or having diarrhoea. Oh yeah.. Whew
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