31asb asubha practice strategy: set a calendar alert to change your pc desktop background image once a week

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Here are 31 visual images for you to memorize so when you chant the 31 body parts (vocally or mentally), you mentally visualize as you chant each body part. 

https://lucid24.org/sted/31asb/31asb-pic/index.html

and an even more inspiring collection of asubha here: 🔗🏦 Bank of Asubha

set a calendar alert once a week (or more frequently)

31asb asubha practice strategy: set a calendar alert to change your pc desktop background image once a week

I use google calendar, you can set a recurring calendar event for every week (or whatever interval you like, every 3 days for example), to send you an email reminder to change your computer desktop background image. 

Within the google calendar event, go into edit details and include in the notes section a link to this blog post and/or the link to the page above containing the 31 pictures.

Then, you'll get a weekly email from google reminding you:

Google Calendar <calendar-notification@google.com>

Dec 19, 2021, 4:24 PM (16 hours ago)

to me

asubha background rotation

Click on the link in the email to see the calendar details, and from there you should have a link to the blog post or pictures.

Once you've selected a picture

On windows PC, hover your cursor over one of the 31 images, hold down right mouse button, and one of the options is to set that image to your desktop background.

You can just go in order of the 31asb, as listed in the link above, or what I do is I go roughly in order, but I hold or repeat the body parts that I have a more difficult time memorizing/visualizing. The priority principle.

What you're working towards, is eventually at all times of the day, whenever you seeing living beings, human, animal, yourself in the mirror (ajjhatta = adhi + atta internal self), or external (not you) living or nonliving beings, you can superimpose a partial or full xray vision of what's lying under the skin.

No Pun was intended when I originally wrote this:

Re-reading my post, this line caught my eye:

xray vision of what's lying under the skin.

Your defiled perceptions of reality "lie" to you all the time. 

This is why the satipatthana formula, which is meant to be memorized and recited frequently,

kāye kāyā-(a)nu-passī viharati

Body-as-body – continuous-seeing (he) abides-in,

means you must continuously see the body as a body [as it actually is according to reality], not according to the filthy lies your distorted perceptions try to convince you of.

This is what most people see:

This is what body contemplation of satipatthana formula helps you to see when you frequently recite the reminder to "see the body as a body"

(picture of same person above 30-40 years later)

Here is what is "lying" under her skin:

Popular Theravada interpretation of satipatthana formula doesn't work

This is why many popular translations of the satipatthana don't work at all as a reminder you recite frequently.

Here is one popular translation/interpretation: 

"One meditates on an aspect of the body"

Following that instruction, this is what most people would do:

"Now I'm focusing on the face, an aspect of the body"

Now I'm focusing on the bust, an aspect of the body.

Following Theravada commentary, now I focus on the butt exclusively in and of itself, to the exclusion of her feelings, mind, and mental phenomena. 

The 4sp formula only works as a frequently recited reminder when you translate and interpret it correctly

Sammā-Sati 🐘

right-remembering [of ☸Dharma instructions]

STED Right Remembering (Eng.) (SN 45.8)



"Monks, what is right remembering [of ☸Dharma]?"
1. He meditates continuously seeing the body as a body [as it actually is].
2. He meditates continuously seeing sensations as sensations [as they actually are].
3. He meditates continuously seeing the mind as a mind [as it actually is].
4. He meditates continuously seeing ☸Dharma as ☸Dharma [as it actually is, the only way to nirvana].

[In all four modes of right remembering of ☸Dharma],
* He is ardent 🏹, he has lucid discerning 👁, he remembers 🐘 [to apply relevant ☸Dharma],
* vanquishing worldly avarice and distressed mental states.

"This, monks, is called right remembering [of ☸Dharma]."