1"Bhikkhus, there are these ten kasiṇa bases. [n.1995] Kasiṇāyatanāni. The kasiṇas are disks representing elements or colors used as objects of samādhi meditation. For example, the earth kasiṇa is a disk filled with reddish brown clay; the water kasiṇa is a bowl of water; the color kasiṇas are colored disks. Though the meditator begins with a physical disk, when he can see the kasiṇa clearly with his mind's eye, he discards the physical disk and focuses solely on the mental image. As concentration deepens, another image called the "counterpart mark" (paṭibhāganimitta) emerges as an anchor of attention. Vism chaps. 4 and 5 offer a detailed explanation of the kasiṇas. In the Vism system, the space kasiṇa (which was originally the base of the infinity of space) is replaced by the limited-space kasiṇa, and the consciousness kasiṇa by the light kasiṇa. What ten? One person perceives the earth kasiṇa above, below, across, nondual, measureless. [n.1996] "Nondual" (advaya) here refers simply to the presentation of the object and not to an underlying ontological unity. Mp explains: "This is said because one [kasiṇa] does not acquire the quality of another. For just as, when one enters the water, there is only water and nothing else in all directions, so too, the earth kasiṇa is only the earth kasiṇa. It is unmixed with any other kasiṇa. The same method applies to the others." On appamāṇa, "measureless," Mp says: "This is stated by way of measureless pervasion of this or that (object). For pervading it with the mind, one pervades the whole thing; one does not grasp boundaries, thinking: ‘This is its beginning, this is its middle.’" One person perceives the water kasiṇa … the fire kasiṇa … the air kasiṇa … the blue kasiṇa … the yellow kasiṇa … the red kasiṇa … the white kasiṇa … the space kasiṇa … the consciousness kasiṇa above, below, across, nondual, measureless. These are the ten kasiṇa bases."

1"Dasayimāni, bhikkhave, kasiṇāyatanāni. Katamāni dasa? Pathavīkasiṇameko sañjānāti uddhaṁ adho tiriyaṁ advayaṁ appamāṇaṁ; āpokasiṇameko sañjānāti … pe … tejokasiṇameko sañjānāti … vāyokasiṇameko sañjānāti … nīlakasiṇameko sañjānāti … pītakasiṇameko sañjānāti … lohitakasiṇameko sañjānāti … odātakasiṇameko sañjānāti … ākāsakasiṇameko sañjānāti … viññāṇakasiṇameko sañjānāti uddhaṁ adho tiriyaṁ advayaṁ appamāṇaṁ. Imāni kho, bhikkhave, dasa kasiṇāyatanānī"ti.

Pañcamaṁ.