Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c8.s4.7

v1.c8.s4.7

The reasons assigned for these conclusions are as follows: Some meditators who take the finite and circular world as their object of meditation and do not extend it to all the world systems (*Cakkavāḷas*),² arrive at the first conclusion. Those who take all the *Cakkavāḷas* as their object of meditation, arrive at the second,³ while those who take the *Cakkavāḷas* limited upwards and downwards but unlimited breadthwise as their object of meditation, arrive at the third.⁴