Dear Yong Peng,
Thank you very much.
op 17-08-2003 06:20 schreef Ong Yong Peng op ypong001@...:

> Kathañca pana, bhikkhave, bhikkhu kaaye kaayaanupassii viharati?
> for what reason / then / O monks / monk / on body / ??? / dwells

He dwells contemplating the body in the body.
Co transl by Ven Soma:
<Why is the word "body" used twice in the phrase "contemplating the body in
the body"? For determining the object and isolating it, and for the sifting
out thoroughly [vinibbhoga]of the apparently compact [gha.na]nature of
things, like continuity [santati]. ..
Because there is no contemplating of feelings, consciousness or mental
objects in the body...>
N:Thus the first reason is: body is contemplated, the first section of the
four applications of mindfulness. Then the second reason:
<In the body there is no contemplation of a uniform things, apart from the
big and small members of the body, or of a man, or of a woman, apart from
such things like the hair of the head and the hair of the body.
There can be nothing apart from the qualities of primary and derived
materiality [the four great elements and the derived ruupas.N], in a
body...>
Y: kaaya (m.) body, in this case the word takes the implied meaning of

> a collection or accumulation (of aggregates).

N: I would say, a collection of different physical phenomena. But the
purpose is to see them as non-self.
Nina.