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Aṅguttara Nikāya
XI. Ekā-Dasaka Nipāta
I. Nissāya

The Book of the Gradual Sayings
XI. The Book of the Elevens
I. Dependence

Sutta 9

Saññā-Manasikārā Suttaɱ (c)

Conscious work-of-mind (c)

Translated from the Pali by F. L. Woodward, M.A.

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[204]

[1.] Now the venerable Ānanda came to see the Exalted One,
and on coming to him saluted him
and sat down at one side.
So seated at one side he said:

"Pray, sir, may it be
that a monk's winning of concentration
may be of such a sort that,
though he pay no heed to eye or object seen,
or to ear or sound,
to nose or scent,
to tongue or savour,
to body or tangibles;
though he heed not earth, water, fire, air,
the realm of unbounded space,
the realm of consciousness,
that of nothingness,
that of neither-perception-nor-not-perception,
though he heed not this world
nor the world beyond;
though whatever is seen, heard, sensed, cognized,
attained, sought after, thought out by mind
— to all that he pays no mental heed,
and yet does so?"

"It may be so, Ānanda
that a monk's winning of concentration
may be of such a sort that,
though he pay no heed to eye or object seen,
or to ear or sound,
to nose or scent,
to tongue or savour,
to body or tangibles;
though he heed not earth, water, fire, air,
the realm of unbounded space,
the realm of consciousness,
that of nothingness,
that of neither-perception-nor-not-perception,
though he heed not this world
nor the world beyond;
though whatever is seen, heard, sensed, cognized,
attained, sought after, thought out by mind
— to all that he pays no mental heed,
and yet does so."

[322] "Pray, sir, in what way is a monk's winning of concentration of such a sort that
though he pay no heed to eye or object seen,
or to ear or sound,
to nose or scent,
to tongue or savour,
to body or tangibles;
though he heed not earth, water, fire, air,
the realm of unbounded space,
the realm of consciousness,
that of nothingness,
that of neither-perception-nor-not-perception,
though he heed not this world
nor the world beyond;
though whatever is seen, heard, sensed, cognized,
attained, sought after, thought out by mind
— to all that he pays no mental heed,
and yet does so?"

'Herein, Ānanda,
a monk's work-of-mind is thus:

'This is the real, this is the best, namely:
the calming of all activities,
the rejection of every substrate,
the ending of craving,
the fading of interest,
stopping and Nibbana.'

In such a way, Ānanda,
a monk's winning of concentration is of such a sort that,
though he pay no heed to eye or object seen,
or to ear or sound,
to nose or scent,
to tongue or savour,
to body or tangibles;
though he heed not earth, water, fire, air,
the realm of unbounded space,
the realm of consciousness,
that of nothingness,
that of neither-perception-nor-not-perception,
though he heed not this world
nor the world beyond;
though whatever is seen, heard, sensed, cognized,
attained, sought after, thought out by mind
— to all that he pays no mental heed,
and yet does so."[1]

 


[1] Comy. paccāvekkhanā (contemplation) is spoken of here.


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