Snot: "This is impurity that trickles out from the brain. As to colour, it is the colour of a young palmyra kernel. As to shape, it is the shape of its location. As to direction, it belongs to the upper direction." 1/n
"...just as though a man tied up curd in a lotus leaf, which he then pricked with a thorn underneath, and whey oozed out and dripped, so too, when beings weep or suffer a disturbance of elements produced by wrong food or temperature, then..." 3/n
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"...the brain inside the head turns into stale phlegm, and it oozes out and comes down by an opening in the palate, and it fills the nostrils and stays there or trickles out." 4/n
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"And the meditator who discerns snot should discern it only as it is to be found filling the nostril cavities. As to delimitation, it is bounded by what appertains to snot." 5/5 Visuddhimagga (The Path of Purification)
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