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SN 34.7PTS SN 3.2671 min read

Projecting the Mind Purified by Immersion

Samādhimūlakaabhinīhārasutta

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

  • 0.1Saṁyutta Nikāya 34.7Linked Discourses 34.7
  • 0.21. Jhānavagga1. Absorption

0.3SamādhimūlakaabhinīhārasuttaProjecting the Mind Purified by 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 abhinīhārakusalo.One meditator is skilled in immersion but not in projecting the mind purified by immersion. …”11.5Idha pana, bhikkhave, ekacco jhāyī samādhismiṁ abhinīhārakusalo hoti, na samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo.1.6Idha pana, bhikkhave, ekacco jhāyī neva samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo hoti, na ca samādhismiṁ abhinīhārakusalo.1.7Idha pana, bhikkhave, ekacco jhāyī samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo ca hoti, samādhismiṁ abhinīhārakusalo ca.1.8Tatra, bhikkhave, yvāyaṁ jhāyī samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo ca hoti samādhismiṁ abhinīhārakusalo 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.

1.11Sattamaṁ.

Translator’s notes

  1. They cannot “project” the mind to the various psychic powers and higher knowledges (DN 2:84.6).

    ↩ sn34.7:1.4