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Numbered Discourses · AN 5.27

  • Numbered Discourses 5.27Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.27
  • 3. With Five Factors3. Pañcaṅgikavagga

ImmersionSamādhisutta

“Mendicants, develop limitless immersion, alert and mindful.“Samādhiṁ, bhikkhave, bhāvetha appamāṇaṁ nipakā patissatā. When you develop limitless immersion, alert and mindful, five knowledges arise for you personally.Samādhiṁ, bhikkhave, bhāvayataṁ appamāṇaṁ nipakānaṁ patissatānaṁ pañca ñāṇāni paccattaññeva uppajjanti. What five?Katamāni pañca?

‘This immersion is blissful now, and results in bliss in the future.’ …‘Ayaṁ samādhi paccuppannasukho ceva āyatiñca sukhavipāko’ti paccattaññeva ñāṇaṁ uppajjati,

‘This immersion is noble and not of the flesh.’ …‘ayaṁ samādhi ariyo nirāmiso’ti paccattaññeva ñāṇaṁ uppajjati,

‘This immersion is not cultivated by reprobates.’ …‘ayaṁ samādhi akāpurisasevito’ti paccattaññeva ñāṇaṁ uppajjati,

‘This immersion is peaceful and sublime and tranquil and unified, not held in place by forceful suppression.’ …‘ayaṁ samādhi santo paṇīto paṭippassaddhaladdho ekodibhāvādhigato, na sasaṅkhāraniggayhavāritagato’ti paccattaññeva ñāṇaṁ uppajjati,

‘I mindfully enter into and emerge from this immersion.’ …‘sato kho panāhaṁ imaṁ samāpajjāmi sato vuṭṭhahāmī’ti paccattaññeva ñāṇaṁ uppajjati.

Develop limitless immersion, alert and mindful.Samādhiṁ, bhikkhave, bhāvetha appamāṇaṁ nipakā patissatā. When you develop limitless immersion, alert and mindful, these five knowledges arise for you personally.”Samādhiṁ, bhikkhave, bhāvayataṁ appamāṇaṁ nipakānaṁ patissatānaṁ imāni pañca ñāṇāni paccattaññeva uppajjantī”ti.

Similar passages elsewhere

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  1. AN 7.45 Prerequisites for Immersion 0.60near 0.1Numbered Discourses 7.45 5. A Great Sacrifice Prerequisites for Immersion “Mendicants, there are these seven prerequisites for immersion. What seven? Right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihoo…
  2. AN 5.28 With Five Factors 0.60near 0.1Numbered Discourses 5.28 3. With Five Factors With Five Factors “Mendicants, I will teach you how to develop noble right immersion with five factors. Listen and apply your mind well, I will speak.” “Yes, sir,” they repli…
  3. AN 4.41 Ways of Developing Immersion Further 0.54near 0.1Numbered Discourses 4.41 5. With Rohitassa Ways of Developing Immersion Further “Mendicants, there are these four ways of developing immersion further. What four? There is a way of developing immersion further that leads…
  4. SN 43.12 The Unconditioned 0.53near 0.1Immersion without placing the mind or keeping it connected. … Emptiness immersion. … Signless immersion. … Undirected immersion. … A mendicant meditates by observing an aspect of the body—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of…
  5. AN 5.113 Right Immersion 0.53near 0.1Numbered Discourses 5.113 12. At Andhakavinda Right Immersion “Mendicants, a mendicant who has five qualities can’t enter and remain in right immersion. What five? It’s when a mendicant can’t endure sights, sounds, smell…