MEDITATION DEVICE - ကသိဏ

MEDITATION DEVICE Kasiṇa

ကသိဏ -     ကသုိဏ္း၊ ကသုိဏ္း၀န္းအာ႐ုံ။

ပထ၀ီကသုိဏ္း၀န္းျပဳလုပ္ပုံမွာ ၀ဏၰကသုိဏ္းတုိ႔ႏွင့္ မေရာယွက္ရေအာင္ အညိဳ၊ အေ႐ႊ၊ အနီ၊ အျဖဴအဆင္းရွိေသာ ေျမကုိမသုံးဘဲ အ႐ုဏ္အဆင္း (အနည္းငယ္ နီေသာအဆင္း)ရွိေသာေျမကုိ အသုံးျပဳရသည္။ ယင္းေျမေပၚတြင္ အခ်င္းတစ္ထြာ၊ လက္ေလးသစ္ ပမာဏ အ၀န္းအ၀ုိင္းပုံ လိမ္းက်ံရသည္။

Artifice for meditation; the circle used as an object of meditation

Earth device, for example, is a circle of earth of about one span and four fingers breadth (i.e, about 12 inches) in diameter, plastered on the ground to serve as a meditation object. The colour of the earth is to be of the rosy colour of dawn, to be distinct from brown, golden, red, white colours that are used for colour-device in meditation.