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| | Buddhism in Translations - § 74. The Four Intent Contemplations. |
 | | Priests, there is but one way open to mortals for the attainment of purity, for the overcoming of sorrow and lamentation, for the abolition of misery and grief, for the acquisition of the correct rule of conduct, for the realization of Nirvana, and that is the Four Intent Contemplations. |
 | | Whenever, O priests, a priest lives, as respects the elements of being, observant of the elements of being in the five obstacles to the religious life. |
 | | But again, O priests, a priest lives, as respects the elements of being, observant of the elements of being in the six organs of sense and the six objects of sense. |
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