1. PA-AUK MEDITATION CENTRE 1
Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammā-sambuddhassa
• Namo Tassa, Homage To Him,
• Bhagavato, The Blessed One,
• Arahato, The Worthy One,
• Sammā- The Perfectly
• Sambuddhassa.
=Self-Enlightened One.

2. Anapana
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Fire, Wind, Space
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4-Elements
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Ānāpāna
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Re-Developing ten Kasina until 8th Jhāna in order.
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4 protective
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Loving Kindness
Meditation
Recollection of the
Buddha’s Qualities
, Recollection of
Death and Foulness
Meditation
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3rd
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3. Groups of
Materiality
No. Types of Materiality Pāḷi
18Typesofconcretematter
Great materiality
(mahā-bhūta)
1 Earth element Pathavi-dhātu
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Materiality
(catumahā
bhūta)
2 Water element Āpo-dhātu
3 Fire element Tejo-dhātu
4 Wind element Vāyo-dhātu
Translucent materiality
(pasāda-rūpa)
5 Eye translucency Cakkhu-pasāda
Twenty-FourtypesofDerivedMateriality(upādāya-rūpa)
6 Ear translucency Sota-pasāda
7 Nose translucency Ghāna-pasāda
8 Tongue translucency Jivhā-pasāda
9 Body-translucency Kaya-pasāda
Field Materiality
(gocara-rūpa)
10 Colour Vaṇṇa
11 Sound Sadda
12 Odour Gandha
13 Flavour Rasa
Tangible
(Earth, Fire, Wind element)
Poṭṭhabba, Tejo,
Vāyo
Sex Materiality
(bhāva-rūpa)
14 Female sex materiality Itthi-bhāva-rūpa
15 Male sex materiality Purisa-bhāva-rūpa
Base (vatthu) 16 Heart materiality Hadaya-rūpa
Life-Faculty
(jīvitindriya)
17 Life-faculty Jīvitindriya
Nutritive Essence (ojā) 18 Nutritive essence Ojā
28 Types of Materiality
The 18 Types of Concrete Materiality

4. 28 Types of Materiality
The 10 Types of Un-Concrete Materiality
Groups of Materiality No. Types of Materiality Pāḷi
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Delimiting Materiality
(pariccheda-rūpa)
19 Space element Ākāsa-dhātu
Intimation Materiality (viññatti-rūpa)
20 Body intimation Kaya-viññatti
21 Verbal intimation Vacī-viññatti
Change Materiality
(vikāra-rūpa)
22 Lightness Lahutā
23 Softness Mudutā
24 Wieldiness Kammaññatā
Body intimation
Verbal intimation
Kāya-viññatti
Vacī-viññatti
Characteristic Materiality
(lakkhaṇa rūpa)
25 Generation Upacaya
26 Continuity Santati
27 Ageing Jaratā
28 Impermanence Aniccatā

5. 28 Types of Materiality
4 types of cause
• There are 4 causes of materiality. They are
1) Kamma-born materiality (kammaja-rūpa)
2) Consciousness-born materiality (cittaja-rūpa)
3) Temperature-born materiality (utuja-rūpa)
4) Nutriment-born materiality (āhāraja-rūpa)

6. How to see Ultimate Materiality
• Seeing the body translucent element as one block
Continue to develop concentration on the four elements to
reach access concentration. You will see different kinds of
light.

7. How to see Ultimate Materiality
• How to see the rūpa-kalāpas
Concentrate continuously to
discern the four elements in
the translucent form for at
least half an hour. Then with
the light, discern the space
element in the translucent
form, by looking for small
spaces in it. You will now
find that the translucent form
breaks down into small
particles; they are called
rūpa-kalāpa.

8. How to see Ultimate Materiality
• Translucent and Un-Translucent rūpa-kalāpas
Rūpa-kalāpas that include one of the five translucencies
(eye-, ear-, nose-, tongue- or body translucency) are the
translucent rūpa-kalāpas. All other types of kalāpas are
untranslucent rūpa-kalāpas.
Translucent rūpa-kalāpa
Un-Translucent rūpa-
kalāpa

9. How to see Ultimate Materiality
• How you analyze the rūpa-kalāpas to see the four
elements
If the kalāpas arise and perish very, very quickly and you
are unable to discern the four elements in single rūpa-
kalāpas, then ignore their arising and perishing. You should
only concentrate on the four elements in single ones. It is
possible for you to do this because of the power of your
concentration.
If you are still unsuccessful, you should concentrate on the
earth element alternately in the whole body at once and in a
single rūpa-kalāpa.

10. How to see Ultimate Materiality
• How you analyze the rūpa-kalāpas to see the four
elements
Do the same with the water, fire, and wind element. You
need to discern the four elements in a single translucent
rūpa-kalāpa and a single un-translucent one.
When you become very skilled in the practice, you can see
all four elements (eight characteristics) in a rūpa-kalāpa at
once.
After you are able to see the four elements in a single
translucent and a single untranslucent rūpa-kalāpa, it is the
end of your samatha practice.

11. How to see Ultimate Materiality
• How you see colour
Colour (vaṇṇa), the fifth type of materiality to be discerned,
is the object of sight (rūpārammaṇa), and is found in all
rūpa-kalāpas. It is very easily known with a mind
consciousness alone, because by seeing the rūpa- kalāpas
you have already seen colour. Colour is always the colour
of something, and that something is the four elements.
You know colour
when you are
able to see the
rūpa-kalāpas.

12. How to see Ultimate Materiality
• How you see odour
To do this, you need first to discern the materiality that the
two types of consciousness depend on, namely the nose
translucency and heart materiality.
Having discerned the nose translucency (the nose door)
and the heart materiality (the mind door), you can proceed
to discern the odour of a rūpa-kalāpa near the nose decad-
kalāpa where you discerned the translucency. You will see
that the odour impinges on the nose and mind door at the
same time.

13. How to see Ultimate Materiality
• How you see flavour
Here too, you need first to discern the materiality that the
two types of consciousness depend on: the tongue
translucency and heart materiality. Having done that, you
then discern the flavour of a rūpa-kalāpa. You can take a
rūpa-kalāpa from the saliva on your tongue.

14. How to see Ultimate Materiality
• How you see nutritive essence
Nutritive essence (ojā) is the eighth type of materiality to
discern. It is also found in all rūpa-kalāpas.
Examine any rūpa-kalāpa, and you will find nutritive
essence from which rūpa-kalāpas are seen to multiply forth
again and again.
Examine any rūpa-kalāpa and
you will find nutritive essence
from which rūpa-kalāpas are
seen to multiply forth again
and again.

15. How to see Ultimate Materiality
• How you see life faculty in translucent rūpa-kalāpa
It is easiest for you to discern the life faculty first in a
translucent rūpa-kalāpa. Discern an eye decad kalāpa, and
see that the life faculty sustains the materiality of its own
rūpa-kalāpa only, not the materiality of others.
To see life faculty, discern an eye
decad kalāpa and see that the life
faculty substains the materiality of
its own rūpa-kalāpa only, not the
materiality of others.

16. How to see Ultimate Materiality
• How you see life faculty in un-translucent rūpa-kalāpa
The body has three types of untranslucent rūpa-kalāpa with
life- faculty materiality:
1) Heart decad kalāpa (hadaya-dasaka-kalāpa)
2) Sex decad kalāpa (bhāva-dasaka-kalāpa)
3) Life nonad kalāpa (jīvita-navaka-kalāpa)

17. How to see Ultimate Materiality
• How you see life faculty in un-translucent rūpa-kalāpa
Just now you discerned the life faculty in a translucent
rūpa-kalāpa of the eye, so look again in the eye and discern
an un-translucent rūpa-kalāpa with the life faculty. Since
life nonad-kalāpas and sex decad-kalāpas are found in all
six sense-organs, it will be either one. If it has the sex
materiality, it is a sex decad-kalāpa, if not it is a life nonad-
kalāpa. In that case, discern another un-translucent rūpa-
kalāpa until you discern the sex materiality, and then try to
find it in a rūpa-kalāpa of also the ear, nose, tongue, body
and heart.

18. How to see Ultimate Materiality
• How you see heart materiality
To discern an un-translucent rūpa-kalāpa of the heart, you
concentrate again on the bright, luminous mind door, the
bhavaṅga. To see it very clearly, wiggle your finger, and see
the consciousness that wants to wiggle the finger. Then try
to discern how the bhavaṅga arises dependent on the heart
base: the un-translucent, heart decad-kalāpas. You should be
able to find them in the lower part of the bhavaṅga.

19. How to see Ultimate Materiality
• How you see heart materiality
Discern how the bhavaṅga
arises dependent on the heart
base, the un-translucent , heart
decad kalāpa.

20. Sharing of merits
Idaṁ me
puññaṁ
Āsavakkhayāvahaṁ hotu.
Nibbānassa paccayo hotu.
Idaṁ me puññaṁ
Mama puñña-bhāgaṁ
Sabba sattānaṁ Bhājemi.
Te sabbe me samaṁ
Puññabhāgaṁ labhantu.