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Flesh to the Crows

from The Noble Search by The Firstborn

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The ekayana magga, translated loosely as “direct path”, is a technique in which concentration and insight are developed together, based upon the Foundations of Mindfulness. The Buddha describes four objects of mindfulness: the body, feelings, the mind and the dharmas (or “mind-objects”).
The mindfulness of the body, in fact, involves fourteen exercises, culminating in what is known as “charnel field contemplations”, mindfulness of the body in nine successive stages of decomposition. The practice of the mindfulness of the body is designed to induce the understanding that the body is a collection of impure elements that arise and cease in rapid succession, utterly lacking any kind of permanent self.
This insight into the three marks of existence (impermanence, suffering and no-self) in turn leads to nirvana.
The practice of the four foundations of mindfulness can lead to nirvana very quickly, as the Buddha states at the end of the sutta: “If anyone should develop these four foundations of mindfulness in such a way for seven days, one of two fruits could be expected from him: either final knowledge here and now or, if there is a trace of clinging left, non-return.”

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Contemplate the body
As a body.
Ardent, fully aware and mindful…
Having put away all grief for the world.

Aware…
Of breath, and of posture.
Aware…
Internally, externally.

Not clinging to anything in this world,
As this body too shall become… Flesh to the Crows.

Aware…
Of death and its nature.
Aware…
Internally and externally.

Contemplate the body
As a body.
Ardent, fully aware and mindful…
Having put away all grief for the world.

Aware…
Of the body’s arising factors.
Aware…
Of the body’s vanishing factors.
Aware…
Of the body’s arising and vanishing factors.

Impermanent, in sati.
Suffering, in sati.
Independent, in sati.

Not clinging to anything in this world,
As this body too shall become… Flesh to the Crows.

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from The Noble Search, released December 11, 2008
Bruno Fernandes: Vocals
Paulo Vieira: Lead & Rhythm Guitars
Nuno Gervásio: Lead & Rhythm Guitars
Hélder Malícia: Bass
Rolando Barros: Drum-set
Vorskaath: Tabla
Luís Simões: Sitar
Hugo Santos: Vocals
Proscriptor McGovern: Vocals

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Like lions among men, THE FIRSTBORN come forth as a true force of nature within a movement where mindless, continuous repetition of the same old formulas is often mistaken for talent. The new album «Lions Among Men» is now out and it represents the ultimate stride forward in the path treaded since the band’s inception in the mid-nineties, following 2008’s critically acclaimed «The Noble Search». ... more

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