{"id":"sn40.7","title":"A Question About the Dimension of Nothingness","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn40.7","title":"A Question About the Dimension of Nothingness","units":[{"id":"sn40.7:0","sourceIds":["sn40.7:0.1","sn40.7:0.2","sn40.7:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 40.7\n1. Moggallānavagga\nĀkiñcaññāyatanapañhāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 40.7\n1. By Moggallāna\nA Question About the Dimension of Nothingness"}},{"id":"sn40.7:1","sourceIds":["sn40.7:1.1","sn40.7:1.2","sn40.7:1.3","sn40.7:1.4","sn40.7:1.5","sn40.7:1.6","sn40.7:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“‘Ākiñcaññāyatanaṁ, ākiñcaññāyatanan’ti vuccati.\nKatamaṁ nu kho ākiñcaññāyatananti?\nTassa mayhaṁ, āvuso, etadahosi:\n‘idha bhikkhu sabbaso viññāṇañcāyatanaṁ samatikkamma natthi kiñcīti ākiñcaññāyatanaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nIdaṁ vuccati ākiñcaññāyatanan’ti.\nSo khvāhaṁ, āvuso, sabbaso viññāṇañcāyatanaṁ samatikkamma natthi kiñcīti ākiñcaññāyatanaṁ upasampajja viharāmi.\nTassa mayhaṁ, āvuso, iminā vihārena viharato viññāṇañcāyatanasahagatā saññāmanasikārā samudācaranti.","en":"“They speak of this thing called the ‘dimension of nothingness’.\nWhat is the dimension of nothingness?\nIt occurred to me:\n‘It’s when a mendicant, going totally beyond the dimension of infinite consciousness, aware that “there is nothing at all”, enters and remains in the dimension of nothingness.\nThis is called the dimension of nothingness.’\nAnd so … I was entering and remaining in the dimension of nothingness.\nWhile I was in that meditation, perception and focus accompanied by the dimension of infinite consciousness beset me."}},{"id":"sn40.7:2","sourceIds":["sn40.7:2.1","sn40.7:2.2","sn40.7:2.3","sn40.7:2.4","sn40.7:2.5","sn40.7:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho maṁ, āvuso, bhagavā iddhiyā upasaṅkamitvā etadavoca:\n‘moggallāna, moggallāna.\nMā, brāhmaṇa, ākiñcaññāyatanaṁ pamādo, ākiñcaññāyatane cittaṁ saṇṭhapehi, ākiñcaññāyatane cittaṁ ekodiṁ karohi, ākiñcaññāyatane cittaṁ samādahā’ti.\nSo khvāhaṁ, āvuso, aparena samayena sabbaso viññāṇañcāyatanaṁ samatikkamma natthi kiñcīti ākiñcaññāyatanaṁ upasampajja vihāsiṁ.\nYañhi taṁ, āvuso, sammā vadamāno vadeyya …pe… mahābhiññataṁ patto”ti.\nSattamaṁ.","en":"Then the Buddha came up to me with his psychic power and said,\n‘Moggallāna, Moggallāna!\nDon’t neglect the dimension of nothingness, brahmin! Settle your mind in the dimension of nothingness; unify your mind and immerse it in the dimension of nothingness.’\nAnd so, after some time … I entered and remained in the dimension of nothingness.\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/sn40.7/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."}