{"id":"sn40.6","title":"A Question About the Dimension of Infinite Consciousness","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn40.6","title":"A Question About the Dimension of Infinite Consciousness","units":[{"id":"sn40.6:0","sourceIds":["sn40.6:0.1","sn40.6:0.2","sn40.6:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 40.6\n1. Moggallānavagga\nViññāṇañcāyatanapañhāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 40.6\n1. By Moggallāna\nA Question About the Dimension of Infinite Consciousness"}},{"id":"sn40.6:1","sourceIds":["sn40.6:1.1","sn40.6:1.2","sn40.6:1.3","sn40.6:1.4","sn40.6:1.5","sn40.6:1.6","sn40.6:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“‘Viññāṇañcāyatanaṁ, viññāṇañcāyatanan’ti vuccati.\nKatamaṁ nu kho viññāṇañcāyatananti?\nTassa mayhaṁ, āvuso, etadahosi:\n‘idha bhikkhu sabbaso ākāsānañcāyatanaṁ samatikkamma anantaṁ viññāṇanti viññāṇañcāyatanaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nIdaṁ vuccati viññāṇañcāyatanan’ti.\nSo khvāhaṁ, āvuso, sabbaso ākāsānañcāyatanaṁ samatikkamma anantaṁ viññāṇanti viññāṇañcāyatanaṁ upasampajja viharāmi.\nTassa mayhaṁ, āvuso, iminā vihārena viharato ākāsānañcāyatanasahagatā saññāmanasikārā samudācaranti.","en":"“They speak of this thing called the ‘dimension of infinite consciousness’.\nWhat is the dimension of infinite consciousness?\nIt occurred to me:\n‘It’s when a mendicant, going totally beyond the dimension of infinite space, aware that “consciousness is infinite”, enters and remains in the dimension of infinite consciousness.\nThis is called the dimension of infinite consciousness.’\nAnd so … I was entering and remaining in the dimension of infinite consciousness.\nWhile I was in that meditation, perception and focus accompanied by the dimension of infinite space beset me."}},{"id":"sn40.6:2","sourceIds":["sn40.6:2.1","sn40.6:2.2","sn40.6:2.3","sn40.6:2.4","sn40.6:2.5","sn40.6:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho maṁ, āvuso, bhagavā iddhiyā upasaṅkamitvā etadavoca:\n‘moggallāna, moggallāna.\nMā, brāhmaṇa, viññāṇañcāyatanaṁ pamādo, viññāṇañcāyatane cittaṁ saṇṭhapehi, viññāṇañcāyatane cittaṁ ekodiṁ karohi, viññāṇañcāyatane cittaṁ samādahā’ti.\nSo khvāhaṁ, āvuso, aparena samayena sabbaso ākāsānañcāyatanaṁ samatikkamma anantaṁ viññāṇanti viññāṇañcāyatanaṁ upasampajja vihāsiṁ.\nYañhi taṁ, āvuso, sammā vadamāno vadeyya …pe… mahābhiññataṁ patto”ti.\nChaṭṭhaṁ.","en":"Then the Buddha came up to me with his psychic power and said,\n‘Moggallāna, Moggallāna!\nDon’t neglect the dimension of infinite consciousness, brahmin! Settle your mind in the dimension of infinite consciousness; unify your mind and immerse it in the dimension of infinite consciousness.’\nAnd so, after some time … I entered and remained in the dimension of infinite consciousness.\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/sn40.6/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."}