འདལ་བ་གཞ 2.3

2.3

Seated Practice

The Blessed One then said to the monks, “I hereby declare that henceforth monks should attend to a seated practice, a protocol, and a restoration rite.”

Not knowing what a seated practice, a protocol, or a restoration rite ought to be, the monks appealed to the Blessed One, who replied, “Come, monks. The seated practice is called yoga.⁸⁷ Reflect on this: no matter how you sit or what you do, the whole of this body, from the soles of the feet up to the hair on the crown and all the skin in between, is filled with all sorts of impurities—the hair on the head and face,⁸⁸ the nails and teeth, the dirt, the grime, and the skin, flesh, bones, sinews, veins, kidneys, heart, spleen, lungs, intestines, colon, stomach, guts, bladder, liver, feces, tears, mucus, oils,⁸⁹ lymph, marrow, fat, bile, phlegm, pus, blood, brains, meninges, and urine.”

Meditation Residence

After the Blessed One instructed them to engage in yoga, the monks engaged in yoga even when out on their rounds.⁹⁰ And when they did, they collided with wandering elephants, horses, and infantrymen,⁹¹ causing them to trip and fall, prompting those who lacked faith to taunt those noble ones: “Didn’t you see them?”

Told to engage in yoga, the monks appealed to the Blessed One and the Blessed One replied,