Friends:
Understanding comes by the 18 principal insights:
1: Reflection on impermanence leaves the illusion of permanence,
2: Reflection on pain renounces the misapprehension of pleasure,
3: Reflection on no-self evaporates the imagination of a my-self,
4: Reflection on dispassion & disillusion abandons naive delighting,
5: Reflection on disgust eradicates voracious insatiable greed,
6: Reflection on ceasing desists from blind initiating origination,
7: Reflection on relinquishment releases the lock of grasped clinging,
8: Reflection on fragility leaves the misconception of compact solidity,
9: Reflection on the breakup of all constructions shuts down accumulation,
10: Reflection on change corrects the deception of any lasting constancy,
11: Reflection on the signless eliminates the captivating appearance of a
sign,
12: Reflection on the desireless diminishes the feverish urge within all
craving,
13: Reflection on voidness erases the insistence on the self-deception: 'I
am...',
14: Reflection on higher understanding uproots clinging to the fix idea of a
core,
15: Reflection on direct knowledge & vision removes confused
misinterpretation,
16: Reflection on danger extirpates false assumption of reliance on the
unsafe,
17: Reflection on thorough contemplation shelves neglect of
non-contemplation,
18: Reflection on turning away exterminates mistaken insistence on
bondage...
Source: The Path of <http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=771100>
Purification: Visuddhimagga.
An excellent if not legendary translation by Bhikkhu Nanamoli.
Written by 'the Great Explainer' Buddhaghosa in 5th century AC:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=771100
More on Insight (Vipassan
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/vipassanaa.htm> a):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Calm_and_Insight.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/In_this_very_Life.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Highway_to_Nibbana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Breathing_Calm_and_Insight.htm
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