⚠️warning: In my opinion, the 3 min slideshow is pretty tame, but the animated GIF of a real time lapsed corpse at the bottom of the article may be diffficult for the faint of heart. Proceed at your own risk.
(3 min. video)
Five stages of body decomposition (short video, slideshow with pig pictures):
If you never noticed before, the first of the 9 cemetary contemplations outlines in the same chronological order of the 5 stages described above in the video link. Knowing the science of the decay helps you memorize this pali passage.
4👑☸ Cattāri Ariya-saccaṃ 四聖諦
STED 9siv (nava-sivathika)
9 cemetary contemplations
Puna ca-paraṃ, bhante, bhikkhu | Again **-further, venerable-sir, the-bhikkhu |
seyyathāpi | just as |
passeyya sarīraṃ | (he) should-see a-body |
1. Swollen,blue,festering
sivathikāya chaṭṭitaṃ | in-a-cemetery, cast-away, |
Ekāha-mataṃ vā | One-day-after, or |
Dvīha-mataṃ vā | Two-days-after, or |
Tīha-mataṃ vā | Three-days-after **, |
uddhumātakaṃ | swollen, |
vinīlakaṃ | (or) Turned-blue, |
vipubbakajātaṃ. | (or) festering, |
So imameva kāyaṃ evaṃ upasaṃharati: | he in-his body thus reflects: |
‘ayam-pi kho kāyo | my-self-also, indeed, (my) body |
Evaṃ-dhammo | such-(is its)-nature, |
Evaṃ-bhāvī | such-(it will)-become, |
evaṃ-an-atīto’ti. | such-(it has)-not-gone-beyond. |
1min, squirrel in soil in forest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ5tfdCYqeo
0.5min, armadillo in soil over 4 days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM54X3T9MZQ
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