{"id":"sn53.1-12","title":"Absorptions, Etc.","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn53.1-12","title":"Absorptions, Etc.","units":[{"id":"sn53.1-12:0","sourceIds":["sn53.1-12:0.1","sn53.1-12:0.2","sn53.1-12:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 53.1–12\n1. Gaṅgāpeyyālavagga\nJhānādisutta","en":"Linked Discourses 53.1–12\n1. Abbreviated Texts on the Ganges\nAbsorptions, Etc."}},{"id":"sn53.1-12:1","sourceIds":["sn53.1-12:1.1","sn53.1-12:1.2","sn53.1-12:1.3","sn53.1-12:1.4","sn53.1-12:1.5","sn53.1-12:1.6","sn53.1-12:1.7","sn53.1-12:1.8","sn53.1-12:1.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nTatra kho …pe…\n“cattārome, bhikkhave, jhānā.\nKatame cattāro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu vivicceva kāmehi vivicca akusalehi dhammehi savitakkaṁ savicāraṁ vivekajaṁ pītisukhaṁ paṭhamaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nVitakkavicārānaṁ vūpasamā ajjhattaṁ sampasādanaṁ cetaso ekodibhāvaṁ avitakkaṁ avicāraṁ samādhijaṁ pītisukhaṁ dutiyaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nPītiyā ca virāgā upekkhako ca viharati sato ca sampajāno sukhañca kāyena paṭisaṁvedeti, yaṁ taṁ ariyā ācikkhanti: ‘upekkhako satimā sukhavihārī’ti tatiyaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nSukhassa ca pahānā dukkhassa ca pahānā pubbeva somanassadomanassānaṁ atthaṅgamā adukkhamasukhaṁ upekkhāsatipārisuddhiṁ catutthaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, cattāro jhānāti.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, there are these four absorptions.\nWhat four?\nIt’s when a mendicant, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, enters and remains in the first absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of seclusion, while placing the mind and keeping it connected.\nAs the placing of the mind and keeping it connected are stilled, they enter and remain in the second absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of immersion, with internal clarity and mind at one, without placing the mind and keeping it connected.\nAnd with the fading away of rapture, they enter and remain in the third absorption, where they meditate with equanimity, mindful and aware, experiencing for themselves the bliss of which the noble ones declare, ‘Equanimous and mindful, one meditates in bliss.’\nWith the giving up of pleasure and pain and the disappearance of former happiness and sadness, they enter and remain in the fourth absorption, without pleasure or pain, with pure equanimity and mindfulness.\nThese are the four absorptions."}},{"id":"sn53.1-12:2","sourceIds":["sn53.1-12:2.1","sn53.1-12:2.2","sn53.1-12:2.3","sn53.1-12:2.4","sn53.1-12:2.5","sn53.1-12:2.6","sn53.1-12:2.7","sn53.1-12:2.8","sn53.1-12:2.9","sn53.1-12:2.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, gaṅgā nadī pācīnaninnā pācīnapoṇā pācīnapabbhārā;\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu cattāro jhāne bhāvento cattāro jhāne bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro.\nKathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu cattāro jhāne bhāvento cattāro jhāne bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu vivicceva kāmehi vivicca akusalehi dhammehi savitakkaṁ savicāraṁ vivekajaṁ pītisukhaṁ paṭhamaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nVitakkavicārānaṁ vūpasamā …pe… dutiyaṁ jhānaṁ …\ntatiyaṁ jhānaṁ …\ncatutthaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu cattāro jhāne bhāvento cattāro jhāne bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro”ti.\nDvādasamaṁ.\nGaṅgāpeyyālavaggo paṭhamo.","en":"The Ganges River slants, slopes, and inclines to the east.\nIn the same way, a mendicant who develops and cultivates the four absorptions slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.\nAnd how does a mendicant who develops and cultivates the four absorptions slant, slope, and incline to extinguishment?\nIt’s when a mendicant, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, enters and remains in the first absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of seclusion, while placing the mind and keeping it connected.\nAs the placing of the mind and keeping it connected are stilled, they enter and remain in the second absorption …\nthird absorption …\nfourth absorption.\nThat’s how a mendicant who develops and cultivates the four absorptions slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.”"}},{"id":"sn53.1-12:3","sourceIds":["sn53.1-12:3.0","sn53.1-12:3.1","sn53.1-12:3.2","sn53.1-12:3.3","sn53.1-12:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nCha pācīnato ninnā,\ncha ninnā ca samuddato;\nDvete cha dvādasa honti,\nvaggo tena pavuccatīti.","en":"Six on slanting to the east,\nand six on slanting to the ocean;\nthese two sixes make twelve,\nand that’s how this chapter is recited."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn53.1-12/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."}