{"id":"sn40.9","title":"A Question About the Signless","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn40.9","title":"A Question About the Signless","units":[{"id":"sn40.9:0","sourceIds":["sn40.9:0.1","sn40.9:0.2","sn40.9:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 40.9\n1. Moggallānavagga\nAnimittapañhāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 40.9\n1. By Moggallāna\nA Question About the Signless"}},{"id":"sn40.9:1","sourceIds":["sn40.9:1.1","sn40.9:1.2","sn40.9:1.3","sn40.9:1.4","sn40.9:1.5","sn40.9:1.6","sn40.9:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“‘Animitto cetosamādhi, animitto cetosamādhī’ti vuccati.\nKatamo nu kho animitto cetosamādhīti?\nTassa mayhaṁ, āvuso, etadahosi:\n‘idha bhikkhu sabbanimittānaṁ amanasikārā animittaṁ cetosamādhiṁ upasampajja viharati.\nAyaṁ vuccati animitto cetosamādhī’ti.\nSo khvāhaṁ, āvuso, sabbanimittānaṁ amanasikārā animittaṁ cetosamādhiṁ upasampajja viharāmi.\nTassa mayhaṁ, āvuso, iminā vihārena viharato nimittānusāri viññāṇaṁ hoti.","en":"“They speak of this thing called the ‘signless immersion of the heart’.\nWhat is the signless immersion of the heart?\nIt occurred to me:\n‘It’s when a mendicant, not focusing on any signs, enters and remains in the signless immersion of the heart.\nThis is called the signless immersion of the heart.’\nAnd so … I was entering and remaining in the signless immersion of the heart.\nWhile I was in that meditation, my consciousness followed after signs."}},{"id":"sn40.9:2","sourceIds":["sn40.9:2.1","sn40.9:2.2","sn40.9:2.3","sn40.9:2.4","sn40.9:2.5","sn40.9:2.6","sn40.9:2.7","sn40.9:2.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho maṁ, āvuso, bhagavā iddhiyā upasaṅkamitvā etadavoca:\n‘moggallāna, moggallāna.\nMā, brāhmaṇa, animittaṁ cetosamādhiṁ pamādo, animitte cetosamādhismiṁ cittaṁ saṇṭhapehi, animitte cetosamādhismiṁ cittaṁ ekodiṁ karohi, animitte cetosamādhismiṁ cittaṁ samādahā’ti.\nSo khvāhaṁ, āvuso, aparena samayena sabbanimittānaṁ amanasikārā animittaṁ cetosamādhiṁ upasampajja vihāsiṁ.\nYañhi taṁ, āvuso, sammā vadamāno vadeyya:\n‘satthārānuggahito sāvako mahābhiññataṁ patto’ti, mamaṁ taṁ sammā vadamāno vadeyya:\n‘satthārānuggahito sāvako mahābhiññataṁ patto’”ti.\nNavamaṁ.","en":"Then the Buddha came up to me with his psychic power and said,\n‘Moggallāna, Moggallāna!\nDon’t neglect the signless immersion of the heart, brahmin! Settle your mind in the signless immersion of the heart; unify your mind and immerse it in the signless immersion of the heart.’\nAnd so, after some time … I entered and remained in the signless immersion of the heart.\nSo if anyone should be rightly called\na disciple who attained to great direct knowledge with help from the Teacher, it’s me.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn40.9/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."}