Attaining the Angelic Body through the Middle Way : หน้า 109/263

[vimuttīnādassana] will be attained. When the mind is brought to a standstill at the centre of the Sphere of the Seeing and Knowledge of Liberation the Angelic Body will be attained. By now the sequence of the Middle Way will be more apparent to the reader — the sequence of inner spheres that leads from the Coarse Human Body to the Subtle Human Body is the same as that which leads from the Subtle Human Body to the Angelic Body — that is to bring the mind to a standstill successively at Dhammānupassanāsatipaṭṭhāna, the Sphere of Self-Discipline, the Sphere of Concentration, the Sphere of Wisdom, the Sphere of Liberation and the Sphere of Seeing and Knowledge of Liberation — in that order. By channelling the mind in an equivalent way the mind of the Coarse Angelic Body will attain the Subtle Angelic Body, the mind of the Subtle Angelic Body will attain the Coarse Form-Brahmā Body, the mind of the Coarse Form-Brahmā Body will attain the Subtle Form-Brahmā Body, the mind of the Subtle Form-Brahmā Body will attain the Coarse Formless-Brahmā Body, the mind of the Coarse Formless-Brahmā Body will attain the Subtle Formless-Brahmā Body and the mind of the Subtle Formless-Brahmā Body will attain the Dhamma Body — the first body of enlightenment [dhammakāya]. This process of channelling the mind is what the Lord Buddha referred to as ‘seeing the body within the body’ which can be compared to a long journey where we need to transit successively from one different sort of vehicle to another in order to reach our destination (as described in the Rathavīṇita Sutta M.i.145ff.) — we might hire a taxi from our home to the river shore, from there we cross the river on a ferry to