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The purpose of meditation in Buddhism is to eliminate defilements because they are the source of all suffering. Many of the Buddha's sermons were given with the aim of freeing oneself from the power of defilements. One of them is the Sabbāsava Sutta. This sermon contains the Buddha's explanation of the seven ways to eliminate defilements. Here, we find that there are many types of defilements and each group of defilements can be eliminated in different ways consisting of seven ways. For more details, please watch the following video...