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SN 51.8PTS SN 5.2571 min read

Awakened

Buddhasutta

It is because of developing the four bases of psychic power that the Realized One is called a Buddha.

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

  • 0.1Saṁyutta Nikāya 51.8Linked Discourses 51.8
  • 0.21. Cāpālavagga1. At the Cāpāla Shrine

0.3BuddhasuttaAwakened

1.1“Cattārome, bhikkhave, iddhipādā.“Mendicants, there are these four bases of psychic power.1.2Katame cattāro?What four?1.3Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu chandasamādhippadhānasaṅkhārasamannāgataṁ iddhipādaṁ bhāveti,It’s when a mendicant develops the basis of psychic power that has immersion due to enthusiasm …1.4vīriyasamādhi …pe…energy …1.5cittasamādhi …pe…mental development …1.6vīmaṁsāsamādhippadhānasaṅkhārasamannāgataṁ iddhipādaṁ bhāveti.inquiry, and active effort.1.7Ime kho, bhikkhave, cattāro iddhipādā.These are the four bases of psychic power.1.8Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, catunnaṁ iddhipādānaṁ bhāvitattā bahulīkatattā tathāgato ‘arahaṁ sammāsambuddho’ti vuccatī”ti.It is because he has developed and cultivated these four bases of psychic power that the Realized One is called ‘the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha’.”

1.9Aṭṭhamaṁ.