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SN 34.3PTS SN 3.2651 min read

Emerging From Immersion

Samādhimūlakavuṭṭhānasutta

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

  • 0.1Saṁyutta Nikāya 34.3Linked Discourses 34.3
  • 0.21. Jhānavagga1. Absorption

0.3SamādhimūlakavuṭṭhānasuttaEmerging From Immersion

1.1Sāvatthinidānaṁ.At Sāvatthī.

1.2“Cattārome, bhikkhave, jhāyī.“Mendicants, there are these four meditators.1.3Katame cattāro?What four?

1.4Idha, bhikkhave, ekacco jhāyī samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo hoti, na samādhismiṁ vuṭṭhānakusalo.One meditator is skilled in immersion but not in emerging from it. …”11.5Idha pana, bhikkhave, ekacco jhāyī samādhismiṁ vuṭṭhānakusalo hoti, na samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo.1.6Idha pana, bhikkhave, ekacco jhāyī neva samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo hoti, na ca samādhismiṁ vuṭṭhānakusalo.1.7Idha pana, bhikkhave, ekacco jhāyī samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo ca hoti, samādhismiṁ vuṭṭhānakusalo ca.1.8Tatra, bhikkhave, yvāyaṁ jhāyī samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo ca hoti samādhismiṁ vuṭṭhānakusalo ca ayaṁ imesaṁ catunnaṁ jhāyīnaṁ aggo ca seṭṭho ca mokkho ca uttamo ca pavaro ca.1.9Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, gavā khīraṁ …pe…1.10pavaro cā”ti.

1.11Tatiyaṁ.

Translator’s notes

  1. They cannot determine the time for emerging from the meditation.

    ↩ sn34.3:1.4