If you really want to understand how vitakka, rupa, kaya, got corrupted by Vism. and late Abhidhamma, Vimuttimagga makes it very clear. (Vimt. uses an earlier version of abhidhamma, has 38 meditation subjects, and is clearly the basis for Vism.).
I've added copious hyperlink bookmarks for all of these meditation subjects so you can quickly find the part where they use those key terms (vitakka, kaya, jhana, etc) and see how they work. Breath meditation, metta, brahmaviharas for example, in the EBT, early abhidhamma, and Vimt., you do the 4 jhanas simultaneously/concurrently with those meditation. In Vism., you only use those meditation subjects as a means to enter a redefined 'jhana', which is really a frozen state where cetana, will, choice, ability to examine and understand is suspended until one emerges from frozen state.
The 31 body parts, under kayagata, is especially illuminating, because it only goes up to first jhana, so you can see what vitakka is doing in there, and also how vitakka has to be coherent and connected to vaci-sankhara (speech co-activity).
4 jhanas, 4 arupa (using earth kasina as basis)
remainder of 10 kasinas
10 stages of corpses
10 recollections
(7th recollection): 16aps breath meditation
(9th recollection): kaya gata sati | roboman š and epub
(Ch. 8, section 5) 4bv: brahma viharas | roboman audio š and epub
4 elements
loathesomeness of food
I've added copious hyperlink bookmarks for all of these meditation subjects so you can quickly find the part where they use those key terms (vitakka, kaya, jhana, etc) and see how they work. Breath meditation, metta, brahmaviharas for example, in the EBT, early abhidhamma, and Vimt., you do the 4 jhanas simultaneously/concurrently with those meditation. In Vism., you only use those meditation subjects as a means to enter a redefined 'jhana', which is really a frozen state where cetana, will, choice, ability to examine and understand is suspended until one emerges from frozen state.
The 31 body parts, under kayagata, is especially illuminating, because it only goes up to first jhana, so you can see what vitakka is doing in there, and also how vitakka has to be coherent and connected to vaci-sankhara (speech co-activity).
Vimutti-magga
Chapter 7
38 meditation subjectsChapter 8
earth kasina4 jhanas, 4 arupa (using earth kasina as basis)
remainder of 10 kasinas
10 stages of corpses
10 recollections
(7th recollection): 16aps breath meditation
(9th recollection): kaya gata sati | roboman š and epub
(Ch. 8, section 5) 4bv: brahma viharas | roboman audio š and epub
4 elements
loathesomeness of food
Chapter 9
Chapter 9: 5 of the 6 abhiƱƱa (higher knowledges), and supernormal powers.
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