{"id":"an4.41","title":"Ways of Developing Immersion Further","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.41","title":"Ways of Developing Immersion Further","units":[{"id":"an4.41:0","sourceIds":["an4.41:0.1","an4.41:0.2","an4.41:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.41\n5. Rohitassavagga\nSamādhibhāvanāsutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.41\n5. With Rohitassa\nWays of Developing Immersion Further"}},{"id":"an4.41:1","sourceIds":["an4.41:1.1","an4.41:1.2","an4.41:1.3","an4.41:1.4","an4.41:1.5","an4.41:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Catasso imā, bhikkhave, samādhibhāvanā.\nKatamā catasso?\nAtthi, bhikkhave, samādhibhāvanā bhāvitā bahulīkatā diṭṭhadhammasukhavihārāya saṁvattati;\natthi, bhikkhave, samādhibhāvanā bhāvitā bahulīkatā ñāṇadassanappaṭilābhāya saṁvattati;\natthi, bhikkhave, samādhibhāvanā bhāvitā bahulīkatā satisampajaññāya saṁvattati;\natthi, bhikkhave, samādhibhāvanā bhāvitā bahulīkatā āsavānaṁ khayāya saṁvattati.","en":"“Mendicants, there are these four ways of developing immersion further.\nWhat four?\nThere is a way of developing immersion further that leads to blissful meditation in this life.\nThere is a way of developing immersion further that leads to gaining knowledge and vision.\nThere is a way of developing immersion further that leads to mindfulness and awareness.\nThere is a way of developing immersion further that leads to the ending of defilements."}},{"id":"an4.41:2","sourceIds":["an4.41:2.1","an4.41:2.2","an4.41:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, samādhibhāvanā bhāvitā bahulīkatā diṭṭhadhammasukhavihārāya saṁvattati?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu vivicceva kāmehi …pe… catutthaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nAyaṁ, bhikkhave, samādhibhāvanā bhāvitā bahulīkatā diṭṭhadhammasukhavihārāya saṁvattati.","en":"And what is the way of developing immersion further that leads to blissful meditation in this life?\nIt’s when a mendicant, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, enters and remains in the first absorption … second absorption … third absorption … fourth absorption.\nThis is the way of developing immersion further that leads to blissful meditation in this life."}},{"id":"an4.41:3","sourceIds":["an4.41:3.1","an4.41:3.2","an4.41:3.3","an4.41:3.4","an4.41:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, samādhibhāvanā bhāvitā bahulīkatā ñāṇadassanappaṭilābhāya saṁvattati?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu ālokasaññaṁ manasi karoti, divāsaññaṁ adhiṭṭhāti—\nyathā divā tathā rattiṁ, yathā rattiṁ tathā divā.\nIti vivaṭena cetasā apariyonaddhena sappabhāsaṁ cittaṁ bhāveti.\nAyaṁ, bhikkhave, samādhibhāvanā bhāvitā bahulīkatā ñāṇadassanappaṭilābhāya saṁvattati.","en":"And what is the way of developing immersion further that leads to gaining knowledge and vision?\nIt’s when a mendicant applies their mind to the perception of light, focusing on the perception of day:\nas by day, so by night; as by night, so by day.\nAnd so, with an open and unenveloped heart, they develop a mind that’s full of radiance.\nThis is the way of developing immersion further that leads to gaining knowledge and vision."}},{"id":"an4.41:4","sourceIds":["an4.41:4.1","an4.41:4.2","an4.41:4.3","an4.41:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, samādhibhāvanā bhāvitā bahulīkatā satisampajaññāya saṁvattati?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno viditā vedanā uppajjanti, viditā upaṭṭhahanti, viditā abbhatthaṁ gacchanti;\nviditā saññā …pe… viditā vitakkā uppajjanti, viditā upaṭṭhahanti, viditā abbhatthaṁ gacchanti.\nAyaṁ, bhikkhave, samādhibhāvanā bhāvitā bahulīkatā satisampajaññāya saṁvattati.","en":"And what is the way of developing immersion further that leads to mindfulness and awareness?\nIt’s when a mendicant knows feelings as they arise, as they remain, and as they go away.\nThey know perceptions as they arise, as they remain, and as they go away. They know thoughts as they arise, as they remain, and as they go away.\nThis is the way of developing immersion further that leads to mindfulness and awareness."}},{"id":"an4.41:5","sourceIds":["an4.41:5.1","an4.41:5.2","an4.41:5.3","an4.41:5.4","an4.41:5.5","an4.41:5.6","an4.41:5.7","an4.41:5.8","an4.41:5.9","an4.41:5.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, samādhibhāvanā bhāvitā bahulīkatā āsavānaṁ khayāya saṁvattati?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcasu upādānakkhandhesu udayabbayānupassī viharati:\n‘iti rūpaṁ, iti rūpassa samudayo, iti rūpassa atthaṅgamo;\niti vedanā, iti vedanāya samudayo, iti vedanāya atthaṅgamo;\niti saññā, iti saññāya samudayo, iti saññāya atthaṅgamo;\niti saṅkhārā, iti saṅkhārānaṁ samudayo, iti saṅkhārānaṁ atthaṅgamo;\niti viññāṇaṁ, iti viññāṇassa samudayo, iti viññāṇassa atthaṅgamo’ti.\nAyaṁ, bhikkhave, samādhibhāvanā bhāvitā bahulīkatā āsavānaṁ khayāya saṁvattati.\nImā kho, bhikkhave, catasso samādhibhāvanā.\nIdañca pana metaṁ, bhikkhave, sandhāya bhāsitaṁ pārāyane puṇṇakapañhe:","en":"And what is the way of developing immersion further that leads to the ending of defilements?\nIt’s when a mendicant meditates observing rise and fall in the five grasping aggregates.\n‘Such is form, such is the origin of form, such is the disappearance of form.\nSuch is feeling, such is the origin of feeling, such is the disappearance of feeling.\nSuch is perception, such is the origin of perception, such is the disappearance of perception.\nSuch are choices, such is the origin of choices, such is the disappearance of choices.\nSuch is consciousness, such is the origin of consciousness, such is the disappearance of consciousness.’\nThis is the way of developing immersion further that leads to the ending of defilements.\nThese are the four ways of developing immersion further.\nAnd it was in this connection that I said in ‘The Way to the Far Shore’, in ‘The Questions of Puṇṇaka’:"}},{"id":"an4.41:6","sourceIds":["an4.41:6.1","an4.41:6.2","an4.41:6.3","an4.41:6.4","an4.41:6.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Saṅkhāya lokasmiṁ paroparāni,\nYassiñjitaṁ natthi kuhiñci loke;\nSanto vidhūmo anīgho nirāso,\nAtāri so jātijaranti brūmī’”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"‘Having appraised the world high and low,\nthere is nothing in the world that disturbs them.\nPeaceful, unclouded, untroubled, with no need for hope,\nthey’ve crossed over rebirth and old age, I declare.’”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.41/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."}