{"id":"sn40.5","title":"A Question About the Dimension of Infinite Space","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn40.5","title":"A Question About the Dimension of Infinite Space","units":[{"id":"sn40.5:0","sourceIds":["sn40.5:0.1","sn40.5:0.2","sn40.5:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 40.5\n1. Moggallānavagga\nĀkāsānañcāyatanapañhāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 40.5\n1. By Moggallāna\nA Question About the Dimension of Infinite Space"}},{"id":"sn40.5:1","sourceIds":["sn40.5:1.1","sn40.5:1.2","sn40.5:1.3","sn40.5:1.4","sn40.5:1.5","sn40.5:1.6","sn40.5:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“‘Ākāsānañcāyatanaṁ, ākāsānañcāyatanan’ti vuccati.\nKatamaṁ nu kho ākāsānañcāyatananti?\nTassa mayhaṁ, āvuso, etadahosi:\n‘idha bhikkhu sabbaso rūpasaññānaṁ samatikkamā paṭighasaññānaṁ atthaṅgamā nānattasaññānaṁ amanasikārā ananto ākāsoti ākāsānañcāyatanaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nIdaṁ vuccati ākāsānañcāyatanan’ti.\nSo khvāhaṁ, āvuso, sabbaso rūpasaññānaṁ samatikkamā paṭighasaññānaṁ atthaṅgamā nānattasaññānaṁ amanasikārā ananto ākāsoti ākāsānañcāyatanaṁ upasampajja viharāmi.\nTassa mayhaṁ, āvuso, iminā vihārena viharato rūpasahagatā saññāmanasikārā samudācaranti.","en":"“They speak of this thing called the ‘dimension of infinite space’.\nWhat is the dimension of infinite space?\nIt occurred to me:\n‘It’s when a mendicant, 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.\nThis is called the dimension of infinite space.’\nAnd so … I was entering and remaining in the dimension of infinite space.\nWhile I was in that meditation, perception and focus accompanied by forms beset me."}},{"id":"sn40.5:2","sourceIds":["sn40.5:2.1","sn40.5:2.2","sn40.5:2.3","sn40.5:2.4","sn40.5:2.5","sn40.5:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho maṁ, āvuso, bhagavā iddhiyā upasaṅkamitvā etadavoca:\n‘moggallāna, moggallāna.\nMā, brāhmaṇa, ākāsānañcāyatanaṁ pamādo, ākāsānañcāyatane cittaṁ saṇṭhapehi, ākāsānañcāyatane cittaṁ ekodiṁ karohi, ākāsānañcāyatane cittaṁ samādahā’ti.\nSo khvāhaṁ, āvuso, aparena samayena sabbaso rūpasaññānaṁ samatikkamā paṭighasaññānaṁ atthaṅgamā nānattasaññānaṁ amanasikārā ananto ākāsoti ākāsānañcāyatanaṁ upasampajja vihāsiṁ.\nYañhi taṁ, āvuso, sammā vadamāno vadeyya …pe… mahābhiññataṁ patto”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"Then the Buddha came up to me with his psychic power and said,\n‘Moggallāna, Moggallāna!\nDon’t neglect the dimension of infinite space, brahmin! Settle your mind in the dimension of infinite space; unify your mind and immerse it in the dimension of infinite space.’\nAnd so, after some time … I entered and remained in the dimension of infinite space.\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/sn40.5/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."}