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Another Discourse on the First Absorption

Aparapaṭhamajhānasutta

Give up stinginess to enter the first absorption.

Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato · Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

  • 0.1Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.264Numbered Discourses 5.264
  • 0.226. Upasampadāvagga26. Ordination

0.3AparapaṭhamajhānasuttaAnother Discourse on the First Absorption

1.1“Pañcime, bhikkhave, dhamme appahāya abhabbo paṭhamaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharituṁ.“Mendicants, without giving up these five qualities you can’t enter and remain in the first absorption.1.2Katame pañca?What five?1.3Āvāsamacchariyaṁ, kulamacchariyaṁ, lābhamacchariyaṁ, vaṇṇamacchariyaṁ, akataññutaṁ akataveditaṁ.Stinginess with dwellings, families, material things, praise, and lack of gratitude and thankfulness.1.4Ime kho, bhikkhave, pañca dhamme appahāya abhabbo paṭhamaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharituṁ.Without giving up these five qualities you can’t enter and remain in the first absorption.

2.1Pañcime, bhikkhave, dhamme pahāya bhabbo paṭhamaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharituṁ.But after giving up these five qualities you can enter and remain in the first absorption.2.2Katame pañca?What five?2.3Āvāsamacchariyaṁ, kulamacchariyaṁ, lābhamacchariyaṁ, vaṇṇamacchariyaṁ, akataññutaṁ akataveditaṁ.Stinginess with dwellings, families, material things, praise, and lack of gratitude and thankfulness.2.4Ime kho, bhikkhave, pañca dhamme pahāya bhabbo paṭhamaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharitun”ti.After giving up these five qualities you can enter and remain in the first absorption.”

2.5Cuddasamaṁ.