32 PARTS of the BODY + 4 MYSTIC ELEMENTS ~ Asubha Meditations : LAMA LODRO, Master Meditator ~ 2020

Lama Lodro gives clear, easy-to-follow guidance through each step of the 32-Parts of the Body meditations in the authentic format taught him during his years in Theravada Buddhist monasteries in Thailand and Malaysia. A 3-page study aid is available for free download on Lama Lodro's website at : www.lamalodro.c...
CAUTION : The 32-Parts of the Body meditations as taught here are NOT traditionally advised for people in whom fear, anxiety, panic and/or anger, impatience, irritation are frequently triggered. Those conditions will get more benefit from more calming and beatific meditations.
Originally crafted and taught by Buddha Gautama, the 32-Parts of the Body is a powerful set of Asubha ("not beautiful") meditations that Theravada lineages consider to be the most effective method for developing clear insight into the true nature of mind/body and transcending sensual fixations.
The exercises in the 32 Parts of the Body range from basic identification of visible items of exterior anatomy progressing to inner anatomy and then advancing to very subtle sensing of nuanced qualities and energies in the body grouped for convenience into the four mystic elements of Earth, Water, Fire, and Air.
Meditators can choose the degree of simplicity or complexity that is working best for them in the exercises.
The first levels of the 32-Parts of the Body exercises help dissolve illusions, delusions, misconceptions, and habituated problematic attitudes about the body with which people may have been imprinted.
Persistent study of the 32-Parts of the Body produces deeper levels of perception and increasingly subtle insight into the body’s cellular matrix, biochemical activity, electromagnetic energy, and atomic structure.
~*~*~*~ May all beings be free from sickness, free from obstacles, free from dangers, and free from suffering. May the merit gained by freely sharing this teaching help other beings to fully attain the awakened state of enlightenment in this very life. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
LAMA Karma Tsundulp LODRO (born in 1945) has received and used over 100 forms of meditation during more than 50 years of meditation study and experience that includes multiple Theravada and Tibetan lineages of Buddhism as well as a wide range of secular (non-religious) subjects learned during decades of world travel including many years in Buddhist monasteries in Thailand, Malaysia, India, Sikkim, Japan, and Singapore.
Recorded and Produced in Yukon, Canada by Lama Karma Tsundulp Lodro with text study aids, assistance, research, and writing from Chrys Antaya : May 2020.