"Bhikkhus, there are these seven kinds of persons who are worthy of gifts, worthy of hospitality, worthy of offerings, worthy of reverential salutation, an unsurpassed field of merit for the world. What seven?

"Here, bhikkhus, some person (96) dwells contemplating suffering in the eye … (97) … dwells contemplating non-self in the eye … (98) … dwells contemplating destruction in the eye … (99) … dwells contemplating vanishing in the eye … (100) … dwells contemplating fading away in the eye … (101) … dwells contemplating cessation in the eye … (102) … dwells contemplating relinquishment in the eye …