{"id":"sn40.8","title":"A Question About the Dimension of Neither Perception Nor Non-Perception","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn40.8","title":"A Question About the Dimension of Neither Perception Nor Non-Perception","units":[{"id":"sn40.8:0","sourceIds":["sn40.8:0.1","sn40.8:0.2","sn40.8:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 40.8\n1. Moggallānavagga\nNevasaññānāsaññāyatanapañhāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 40.8\n1. By Moggallāna\nA Question About the Dimension of Neither Perception Nor Non-Perception"}},{"id":"sn40.8:1","sourceIds":["sn40.8:1.1","sn40.8:1.2","sn40.8:1.3","sn40.8:1.4","sn40.8:1.5","sn40.8:1.6","sn40.8:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“‘Nevasaññānāsaññāyatanaṁ, nevasaññānāsaññāyatanan’ti vuccati.\nKatamaṁ nu kho nevasaññānāsaññāyatananti?\nTassa mayhaṁ, āvuso, etadahosi:\n‘idha bhikkhu sabbaso ākiñcaññāyatanaṁ samatikkamma nevasaññānāsaññāyatanaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nIdaṁ vuccati nevasaññānāsaññāyatanan’ti.\nSo khvāhaṁ, āvuso, sabbaso ākiñcaññāyatanaṁ samatikkamma nevasaññānāsaññāyatanaṁ upasampajja viharāmi.\nTassa mayhaṁ, āvuso, iminā vihārena viharato ākiñcaññāyatanasahagatā saññāmanasikārā samudācaranti.","en":"“They speak of this thing called the ‘dimension of neither perception nor non-perception’.\nWhat is the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception?\nIt occurred to me:\n‘It’s when a mendicant, going totally beyond the dimension of nothingness, enters and remains in the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception.\nThis is called the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception.’\nAnd so … I was entering and remaining in the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception.\nWhile I was in that meditation, perception and focus accompanied by the dimension of nothingness beset me."}},{"id":"sn40.8:2","sourceIds":["sn40.8:2.1","sn40.8:2.2","sn40.8:2.3","sn40.8:2.4","sn40.8:2.5","sn40.8:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho maṁ, āvuso, bhagavā iddhiyā upasaṅkamitvā etadavoca:\n‘moggallāna, moggallāna.\nMā, brāhmaṇa, nevasaññānāsaññāyatanaṁ pamādo, nevasaññānāsaññāyatane cittaṁ saṇṭhapehi, nevasaññānāsaññāyatane cittaṁ ekodiṁ karohi, nevasaññānāsaññāyatane cittaṁ samādahā’ti.\nSo khvāhaṁ, āvuso, aparena samayena sabbaso ākiñcaññāyatanaṁ samatikkamma nevasaññānāsaññāyatanaṁ upasampajja vihāsiṁ.\nYañhi taṁ, āvuso, sammā vadamāno vadeyya …pe… mahābhiññataṁ patto”ti.\nAṭṭhamaṁ.","en":"Then the Buddha came up to me with his psychic power and said,\n‘Moggallāna, Moggallāna!\nDon’t neglect the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception, brahmin! Settle your mind in the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception; unify your mind and immerse it in the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception.’\nAnd so, after some time … I entered and remained in the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception.\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/sn40.8/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."}