{"id":"sn40.4","title":"A Question About the Fourth Absorption","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn40.4","title":"A Question About the Fourth Absorption","units":[{"id":"sn40.4:0","sourceIds":["sn40.4:0.1","sn40.4:0.2","sn40.4:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 40.4\n1. Moggallānavagga\nCatutthajhānapañhāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 40.4\n1. By Moggallāna\nA Question About the Fourth Absorption"}},{"id":"sn40.4:1","sourceIds":["sn40.4:1.1","sn40.4:1.2","sn40.4:1.3","sn40.4:1.4","sn40.4:1.5","sn40.4:1.6","sn40.4:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“‘Catutthaṁ jhānaṁ, catutthaṁ jhānan’ti vuccati.\nKatamaṁ nu kho catutthaṁ jhānanti?\nTassa mayhaṁ, āvuso, etadahosi:\n‘idha bhikkhu sukhassa ca pahānā dukkhassa ca pahānā pubbeva somanassadomanassānaṁ atthaṅgamā adukkhamasukhaṁ upekkhāsatipārisuddhiṁ catutthaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nIdaṁ vuccati catutthaṁ jhānan’ti.\nSo khvāhaṁ, āvuso, sukhassa ca pahānā dukkhassa ca pahānā pubbeva somanassadomanassānaṁ atthaṅgamā adukkhamasukhaṁ upekkhāsatipārisuddhiṁ catutthaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharāmi.\nTassa mayhaṁ, āvuso, iminā vihārena viharato sukhasahagatā saññāmanasikārā samudācaranti.","en":"“They speak of this thing called the ‘fourth absorption’.\nWhat is the fourth absorption?\nIt occurred to me:\n‘It’s when, with the giving up of pleasure and pain and the disappearance of former happiness and sadness, a mendicant enters and remains in the fourth absorption, without pleasure or pain, with pure equanimity and mindfulness.\nThis is called the fourth absorption.’\nAnd so … I was entering and remaining in the fourth absorption.\nWhile I was in that meditation, perception and focus accompanied by pleasure beset me."}},{"id":"sn40.4:2","sourceIds":["sn40.4:2.1","sn40.4:2.2","sn40.4:2.3","sn40.4:2.4","sn40.4:2.5","sn40.4:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho maṁ, āvuso, bhagavā iddhiyā upasaṅkamitvā etadavoca:\n‘moggallāna, moggallāna.\nMā, brāhmaṇa, catutthaṁ jhānaṁ pamādo, catutthe jhāne cittaṁ saṇṭhapehi, catutthe jhāne cittaṁ ekodiṁ karohi, catutthe jhāne cittaṁ samādahā’ti.\nSo khvāhaṁ, āvuso, aparena samayena sukhassa ca pahānā dukkhassa ca pahānā pubbeva somanassadomanassānaṁ atthaṅgamā adukkhamasukhaṁ upekkhāsatipārisuddhiṁ catutthaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja vihāsiṁ.\nYañhi taṁ, āvuso, sammā vadamāno vadeyya …pe… mahābhiññataṁ patto”ti.\nCatutthaṁ.","en":"Then the Buddha came up to me with his psychic power and said,\n‘Moggallāna, Moggallāna!\nDon’t neglect the fourth absorption, brahmin! Settle your mind in the fourth absorption; unify your mind and immerse it in the fourth absorption.’\nAnd so, after some time … I entered and remained in the fourth absorption.\nSo if anyone should be rightly called a disciple who attained to great direct knowledge with help from the Teacher, it’s me.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn40.4/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."}