{"id":"sn34.1","title":"Entering Immersion","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn34.1","title":"Entering Immersion","units":[{"id":"sn34.1:0","sourceIds":["sn34.1:0.1","sn34.1:0.2","sn34.1:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 34.1\n1. Jhānavagga\nSamādhimūlakasamāpattisutta","en":"Linked Discourses 34.1\n1. Absorption\nEntering Immersion"}},{"id":"sn34.1:1","sourceIds":["sn34.1:1.1","sn34.1:1.2","sn34.1:1.3","sn34.1:1.4","sn34.1:1.5","sn34.1:1.6","sn34.1:1.7","sn34.1:1.8","sn34.1:1.9","sn34.1:1.10","sn34.1:1.11"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\n“Cattārome, bhikkhave, jhāyī.\nKatame cattāro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco jhāyī samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo hoti, na samādhismiṁ samāpattikusalo.\nIdha pana, bhikkhave, ekacco jhāyī samādhismiṁ samāpattikusalo hoti, na samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo.\nIdha pana, bhikkhave, ekacco jhāyī neva samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo hoti, na ca samādhismiṁ samāpattikusalo.\nIdha pana, bhikkhave, ekacco jhāyī samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo ca hoti, samādhismiṁ samāpattikusalo ca.\nTatra, bhikkhave, yvāyaṁ jhāyī samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo ca hoti samādhismiṁ samāpattikusalo ca ayaṁ imesaṁ catunnaṁ jhāyīnaṁ aggo ca seṭṭho ca mokkho ca uttamo ca pavaro ca.\nSeyyathāpi, bhikkhave, gavā khīraṁ, khīramhā dadhi, dadhimhā navanītaṁ, navanītamhā sappi, sappimhā sappimaṇḍo tatra aggamakkhāyati;\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, yvāyaṁ jhāyī samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo ca hoti samādhismiṁ samāpattikusalo ca ayaṁ imesaṁ catunnaṁ jhāyīnaṁ aggo ca seṭṭho ca mokkho ca uttamo ca pavaro cā”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, there are these four meditators.\nWhat four?\nOne meditator is skilled in immersion but not in entering it.\nOne meditator is not skilled in immersion but is skilled in entering it.\nOne meditator is skilled neither in immersion nor in entering it.\nOne meditator is skilled both in immersion and in entering it.\nOf these, the meditator skilled in immersion and in entering it is the foremost, best, chief, highest, and finest of the four.\nFrom a cow comes milk, from milk comes curds, from curds come butter, from butter comes ghee, and from ghee comes cream of ghee. And the cream of ghee is said to be the best of these.\nIn the same way, the meditator skilled in immersion and entering it is the foremost, best, leading, highest, and finest of the four.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn34.1/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."}