{"id":"an8.66","title":"Liberations","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an8.66","title":"Liberations","units":[{"id":"an8.66:0","sourceIds":["an8.66:0.1","an8.66:0.2","an8.66:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 8.66\n7. Bhūmicālavagga\nVimokkhasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 8.66\n7. Earthquakes\nLiberations"}},{"id":"an8.66:1","sourceIds":["an8.66:1.1","an8.66:1.2","an8.66:1.3","an8.66:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Aṭṭhime, bhikkhave, vimokkhā.\nKatame aṭṭha?\nRūpī rūpāni passati.\nAyaṁ paṭhamo vimokkho.","en":"“Mendicants, there are these eight liberations.\nWhat eight?\nHaving physical form, they see forms.\nThis is the first liberation."}},{"id":"an8.66:2","sourceIds":["an8.66:2.1","an8.66:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ajjhattaṁ arūpasaññī, bahiddhā rūpāni passati.\nAyaṁ dutiyo vimokkho.","en":"Not perceiving form internally, they see forms externally.\nThis is the second liberation."}},{"id":"an8.66:3","sourceIds":["an8.66:3.1","an8.66:3.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Subhanteva adhimutto hoti.\nAyaṁ tatiyo vimokkho.","en":"They’re focused only on beauty.\nThis is the third liberation."}},{"id":"an8.66:4","sourceIds":["an8.66:4.1","an8.66:4.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sabbaso rūpasaññānaṁ samatikkamā paṭighasaññānaṁ atthaṅgamā nānattasaññānaṁ amanasikārā ‘ananto ākāso’ti ākāsānañcāyatanaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nAyaṁ catuttho vimokkho.","en":"Going totally beyond perceptions of form, with the disappearance of perceptions of impingement, not focusing on perceptions of diversity, aware that ‘space is infinite’, they enter and remain in the dimension of infinite space.\nThis is the fourth liberation."}},{"id":"an8.66:5","sourceIds":["an8.66:5.1","an8.66:5.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sabbaso ākāsānañcāyatanaṁ samatikkamma ‘anantaṁ viññāṇan’ti viññāṇañcāyatanaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nAyaṁ pañcamo vimokkho.","en":"Going totally beyond the dimension of infinite space, aware that ‘consciousness is infinite’, they enter and remain in the dimension of infinite consciousness.\nThis is the fifth liberation."}},{"id":"an8.66:6","sourceIds":["an8.66:6.1","an8.66:6.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sabbaso viññāṇañcāyatanaṁ samatikkamma ‘natthi kiñcī’ti ākiñcaññāyatanaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nAyaṁ chaṭṭho vimokkho.","en":"Going totally beyond the dimension of infinite consciousness, aware that ‘there is nothing at all’, they enter and remain in the dimension of nothingness.\nThis is the sixth liberation."}},{"id":"an8.66:7","sourceIds":["an8.66:7.1","an8.66:7.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sabbaso ākiñcaññāyatanaṁ samatikkamma nevasaññānāsaññāyatanaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nAyaṁ sattamo vimokkho.","en":"Going totally beyond the dimension of nothingness, they enter and remain in the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception.\nThis is the seventh liberation."}},{"id":"an8.66:8","sourceIds":["an8.66:8.1","an8.66:8.2","an8.66:8.3","an8.66:8.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sabbaso nevasaññānāsaññāyatanaṁ samatikkamma saññāvedayitanirodhaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nAyaṁ aṭṭhamo vimokkho.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, aṭṭha vimokkhā”ti.\nChaṭṭhaṁ.","en":"Going totally beyond the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception, they enter and remain in the cessation of perception and feeling.\nThis is the eighth liberation.\nThese are the eight liberations.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an8.66/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}