{"id":"an9.37","title":"By Ānanda","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an9.37","title":"By Ānanda","units":[{"id":"an9.37:0","sourceIds":["an9.37:0.1","an9.37:0.2","an9.37:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 9.37\n4. Mahāvagga\nĀnandasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 9.37\n4. The Great Chapter\nBy Ānanda"}},{"id":"an9.37:1","sourceIds":["an9.37:1.1","an9.37:1.2","an9.37:1.3","an9.37:1.4","an9.37:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ āyasmā ānando kosambiyaṁ viharati ghositārāme.\nTatra kho āyasmā ānando bhikkhū āmantesi:\n“āvuso bhikkhave”ti.\n“Āvuso”ti kho te bhikkhū āyasmato ānandassa paccassosuṁ.\nĀyasmā ānando etadavoca:","en":"At one time Venerable Ānanda was staying near Kosambī in Ghosita’s monastery.\nThere Ānanda addressed the mendicants:\n“Reverends, mendicants!”\n“Reverend,” they replied.\nĀnanda said this:"}},{"id":"an9.37:2","sourceIds":["an9.37:2.1","an9.37:2.2","an9.37:2.3","an9.37:2.4","an9.37:2.5","an9.37:2.6","an9.37:2.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Acchariyaṁ, āvuso, abbhutaṁ, āvuso.\nYāvañcidaṁ tena bhagavatā jānatā passatā arahatā sammāsambuddhena sambādhe okāsādhigamo anubuddho sattānaṁ visuddhiyā sokaparidevānaṁ samatikkamāya dukkhadomanassānaṁ atthaṅgamāya ñāyassa adhigamāya nibbānassa sacchikiriyāya.\nTadeva nāma cakkhuṁ bhavissati te rūpā tañcāyatanaṁ no paṭisaṁvedissati.\nTadeva nāma sotaṁ bhavissati te saddā tañcāyatanaṁ no paṭisaṁvedissati.\nTadeva nāma ghānaṁ bhavissati te gandhā tañcāyatanaṁ no paṭisaṁvedissati.\nSāva nāma jivhā bhavissati te rasā tañcāyatanaṁ no paṭisaṁvedissati.\nSova nāma kāyo bhavissati te phoṭṭhabbā tañcāyatanaṁ no paṭisaṁvedissatī”ti.","en":"“It’s incredible, reverends, it’s amazing!\nHow this Blessed One who knows and sees, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha, has found an opening amid confinement. It’s in order to purify sentient beings, to get past sorrow and crying, to make an end of pain and sadness, to discover the system, and to realize extinguishment.\nThe eye itself is actually present, and so are those sights. Yet one will not experience that sense-field.\nThe ear itself is actually present, and so are those sounds. Yet one will not experience that sense-field.\nThe nose itself is actually present, and so are those smells. Yet one will not experience that sense-field.\nThe tongue itself is actually present, and so are those tastes. Yet one will not experience that sense-field.\nThe body itself is actually present, and so are those touches. Yet one will not experience that sense-field.”"}},{"id":"an9.37:3","sourceIds":["an9.37:3.1","an9.37:3.2","an9.37:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ vutte, āyasmā udāyī āyasmantaṁ ānandaṁ etadavoca:\n“saññīmeva nu kho, āvuso ānanda, tadāyatanaṁ no paṭisaṁvedeti udāhu asaññī”ti?\n“Saññīmeva kho, āvuso, tadāyatanaṁ no paṭisaṁvedeti, no asaññī”ti.","en":"When he said this, Venerable Udāyī said to Venerable Ānanda:\n“Reverend Ānanda, is one who doesn’t experience that sense-field actually percipient or not?”\n“Reverend, one who doesn’t experience that sense-field is actually percipient, not non-percipient.”"}},{"id":"an9.37:4","sourceIds":["an9.37:4.1","an9.37:4.2","an9.37:4.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kiṁsaññī panāvuso, tadāyatanaṁ no paṭisaṁvedetī”ti?\n“Idhāvuso, bhikkhu, sabbaso rūpasaññānaṁ samatikkamā paṭighasaññānaṁ atthaṅgamā nānattasaññānaṁ amanasikārā ‘ananto ākāso’ti ākāsānañcāyatanaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nEvaṁsaññīpi kho, āvuso, tadāyatanaṁ no paṭisaṁvedeti.","en":"“But what does one who doesn’t experience that sense-field perceive?”\n“It’s when a mendicant, going totally beyond perceptions of form, with the disappearance of perceptions of impingement, not focusing on perceptions of diversity, aware that ‘space is infinite’, enters and remains in the dimension of infinite space.\nOne who doesn’t experience that sense-field perceives in this way."}},{"id":"an9.37:5","sourceIds":["an9.37:5.1","an9.37:5.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, āvuso, bhikkhu sabbaso ākāsānañcāyatanaṁ samatikkamma ‘anantaṁ viññāṇan’ti viññāṇañcāyatanaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nEvaṁsaññīpi kho, āvuso, tadāyatanaṁ no paṭisaṁvedeti.","en":"Furthermore, a mendicant, going totally beyond the dimension of infinite space, aware that ‘consciousness is infinite’, enters and remains in the dimension of infinite consciousness.\nOne who doesn’t experience that sense-field perceives in this way."}},{"id":"an9.37:6","sourceIds":["an9.37:6.1","an9.37:6.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, āvuso, bhikkhu sabbaso viññāṇañcāyatanaṁ samatikkamma ‘natthi kiñcī’ti ākiñcaññāyatanaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nEvaṁsaññīpi kho, āvuso, tadāyatanaṁ no paṭisaṁvedetīti.","en":"Furthermore, a mendicant, going totally beyond the dimension of infinite consciousness, aware that ‘there is nothing at all’, enters and remains in the dimension of nothingness.\nOne who doesn’t experience that sense-field perceives in this way."}},{"id":"an9.37:7","sourceIds":["an9.37:7.1","an9.37:7.2","an9.37:7.3","an9.37:7.4","an9.37:7.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekamidāhaṁ, āvuso, samayaṁ sākete viharāmi añjanavane migadāye.\nAtha kho, āvuso, jaṭilavāsikā bhikkhunī yenāhaṁ tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā maṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ aṭṭhāsi. Ekamantaṁ ṭhitā kho, āvuso, jaṭilavāsikā bhikkhunī maṁ etadavoca:\n‘yāyaṁ, bhante ānanda, samādhi na cābhinato na cāpanato na ca sasaṅkhāraniggayhavāritagato,\nvimuttattā ṭhito, ṭhitattā santusito, santusitattā no paritassati.\nAyaṁ, bhante ānanda, samādhi kiṁphalo vutto bhagavatā’ti?","en":"Reverend, this one time I was staying near Sāketa in the deer park in Añjana Wood.\nThen the nun Jaṭilagāhikā came up to me, bowed, stood to one side, and said to me:\n‘Honorable Ānanda, regarding the immersion that does not lean forward or pull back, and is not held in place by forceful suppression.\nBeing free, it’s stable. Being stable, it’s content. Being content, one is not anxious.\nWhat did the Buddha say was the fruit of this immersion?’"}},{"id":"an9.37:8","sourceIds":["an9.37:8.1","an9.37:8.2","an9.37:8.3","an9.37:8.4","an9.37:8.5","an9.37:8.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ vutte, sohaṁ, āvuso, jaṭilavāsikaṁ bhikkhuniṁ etadavocaṁ:\n‘yāyaṁ, bhagini, samādhi na cābhinato na cāpanato na ca sasaṅkhāraniggayhavāritagato,\nvimuttattā ṭhito, ṭhitattā santusito, santusitattā no paritassati.\nAyaṁ, bhagini, samādhi aññāphalo vutto bhagavatā’ti.\nEvaṁsaññīpi kho, āvuso, tadāyatanaṁ no paṭisaṁvedetī”ti.\nChaṭṭhaṁ.","en":"When she said this, I said to her:\n‘Sister, regarding the immersion that does not lean forward or pull back, and is not held in place by forceful suppression.\nBeing free, it’s stable. Being stable, it’s content. Being content, one is not anxious.\nThe Buddha said that the fruit of this immersion is enlightenment.’\nOne who doesn’t experience that sense-field perceives in this way, too.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an9.37/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."}