Probably a good time to bring back an old thread that explores the Middle Indo Aryan understanding of the term kāya as used in the texts in Pali and Chinese -
The ‘body’ is one of the main objects of attachments, and as an attachment one of the main obstacles in the development of the mind in the Buddhist framework. What follows is less a reflection on the various body-meditations but more fundamentally the implications the choice of words in the suttas has on correctly understanding the context.
Anyone ready for a formless kāya ?
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