"Also, next, Oh good man! A wise person meditates and reflects on why the pair, feeling and touch come about, and sees that they come about through image. How? Beings see materials forms and do not acquire desire. And also, at the time of feeling, no desire arises. If someone acquires an inverted image regarding material form and says that the material form is the Eternal, Bliss, Self, and Pure, and that there can be no change; that someone, through this inversion, will acquire greed, ill-will and ignorance. Thus the wise must meditate on image.
How does one meditate on image? One should think that all beings have not yet reached the Right Way, and that they all have inverted images. What is an inverted image? Being in what is not Eternal (the fleshly body), a person has an image of [i.e. sees it as] Eternal; being in non-Bliss, a person has an image of Bliss; being in what is not Pure, it has an image of what is Pure; being in what is empty, it has an image of the Self; being in what is not male or female, big or small, day or night, month or year, clothes, home, or bedding, it has images from a man and woman down to bedding."
Read More on the Nirvana Sutra, Chapter 44 - On Bodhisattva Kasyapa 5.
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