There are three suttas on the development of unlimited reflection on the aggregates.
The first describes the advantages, on seeing which a person should, without reserve reflects on the aggregates as impermanent. They are the appearances of all phenomena as lacking in fixity, absence of delight in any world, raising of the mind above every world, inclining of the thoughts towards Nibbana, destruction of the fetters and following the course of right recluseship.
The second deals with the advantages accruing to a person on the development of unlimited reflection on the unsatisfactoriness of all aggregates. He sees perfect peace in Nibbana.
The last of the suttas speaks of the advantages gained by a person on the development of unbounded reflection on the non-substantiality of aggregates. Such a person is said to overcome the thoughts of ‘I’ and ‘mine’. Destroying all egoistic conceptions he sees things as they truly are and how things are causally conditioned.
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