{"id":"an9.43","title":"A Direct Witness","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an9.43","title":"A Direct Witness","units":[{"id":"an9.43:0","sourceIds":["an9.43:0.1","an9.43:0.2","an9.43:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 9.43\n5. Sāmaññavagga\nKāyasakkhīsutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 9.43\n5. Similarity\nA Direct Witness"}},{"id":"an9.43:1","sourceIds":["an9.43:1.1","an9.43:1.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“‘Kāyasakkhī, kāyasakkhī’ti, āvuso, vuccati.\nKittāvatā nu kho, āvuso, kāyasakkhī vutto bhagavatā”ti?","en":"“Reverend, they speak of the ‘direct witness’.\nWhat is the direct witness that the Buddha spoke of?”"}},{"id":"an9.43:2","sourceIds":["an9.43:2.1","an9.43:2.2","an9.43:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Idhāvuso, bhikkhu vivicceva kāmehi …pe… paṭhamaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nYathā yathā ca tadāyatanaṁ tathā tathā naṁ kāyena phusitvā viharati.\nEttāvatāpi kho, āvuso, kāyasakkhī vutto bhagavatā pariyāyena.","en":"“First, take a mendicant who, quite secluded from sensual pleasures … enters and remains in the first absorption.\nThey meditate directly experiencing that dimension in every way.\nTo this extent the Buddha spoke of the direct witness in a qualified sense."}},{"id":"an9.43:3","sourceIds":["an9.43:3.1","an9.43:3.2","an9.43:3.3","an9.43:3.4","an9.43:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, āvuso, bhikkhu vitakkavicārānaṁ vūpasamā …pe… dutiyaṁ jhānaṁ …\ntatiyaṁ jhānaṁ …\ncatutthaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nYathā yathā ca tadāyatanaṁ tathā tathā naṁ kāyena phusitvā viharati.\nEttāvatāpi kho, āvuso, kāyasakkhī vutto bhagavatā pariyāyena.","en":"Furthermore, take a mendicant who, as the placing of the mind and keeping it connected are stilled, enters and remains in the second absorption …\nthird absorption …\nfourth absorption.\nThey meditate directly experiencing that dimension in every way.\nTo this extent the Buddha spoke of the direct witness in a qualified sense."}},{"id":"an9.43:4","sourceIds":["an9.43:4.1","an9.43:4.2","an9.43:4.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, āvuso, bhikkhu sabbaso rūpasaññānaṁ samatikkamā paṭighasaññānaṁ atthaṅgamā nānattasaññānaṁ amanasikārā ‘ananto ākāso’ti ākāsānañcāyatanaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nYathā yathā ca tadāyatanaṁ tathā tathā naṁ kāyena phusitvā viharati.\nEttāvatāpi kho, āvuso, kāyasakkhī vutto bhagavatā pariyāyena …pe….","en":"Furthermore, take a mendicant who, 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.\nThey meditate directly experiencing that dimension in every way.\nTo this extent the Buddha spoke of the direct witness in a qualified sense. Furthermore, take a mendicant who enters and remains in the dimension of infinite consciousness … the dimension of nothingness … the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception …"}},{"id":"an9.43:5","sourceIds":["an9.43:5.1","an9.43:5.2","an9.43:5.3","an9.43:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, āvuso, bhikkhu sabbaso nevasaññānāsaññāyatanaṁ samatikkamma saññāvedayitanirodhaṁ upasampajja viharati, paññāya cassa disvā āsavā parikkhīṇā honti.\nYathā yathā ca tadāyatanaṁ tathā tathā naṁ kāyena phusitvā viharati.\nEttāvatāpi kho, āvuso, kāyasakkhī vutto bhagavatā nippariyāyenā”ti.\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"Furthermore, take a mendicant who, going totally beyond the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception, enters and remains in the cessation of perception and feeling. And, having seen with wisdom, their defilements come to an end.\nThey meditate directly experiencing that dimension in every way.\nTo this extent the Buddha spoke of the direct witness in a definitive sense.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an9.43/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."}