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#### Saṁyutta Nikāya
5. Mahā-Vagga
45. Magga Saṁyutta
2. Vihāra Vagga

#### The Book of the Kindred Sayings
5. The Great Chapter
45. Kindred Sayings on the Way
2. Dwelling

#### Sutta 11

#### Paṭhama Vihāra Suttaṁ

# Way of Dwelling (a)[1]

Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids

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[11]

[1][bodh][olds] THUS have I heard:

Once the Exalted One was staying near Sāvatthī.

Then the Exalted One addressed the monks,
saying:

"Monks."

"Yes, lord," replied those monks to the Exalted One.

The Exalted One said:

"Monks, I desire to dwell in solitude
for half a month.

I am not to be visited by any
save by him alone who brings my food."[2]

"So be it, lord"
replied those monks to the Exalted One.

Thus no one visited the Exalted One
save the one who brought his food.

Now at the end of that half-month the Exalted One,
leaving his solitude,
addressed the monks, saying:

"Monks, I have been dwelling partly[3]
in the same manner as I did
after I first attamed enlightenment.

Thus I came to know
what is experienced as a result of wrong view,
and what is experienced as a result of right view
what is experienced as a result of wrong aim,
and what is experienced as a result of right aim
what is experienced as a result of wrong speech,
and what is experienced as a result of right speech
what is experienced as a result of wrong action,
and what is experienced as a result of right action
what is experienced as a result of wrong living,
and what is experienced as a result of right living
what is experienced as a result of wrong effort,
and what is experienced as a result of right effort
what is experienced as a result of wrong mindfulness,
and what is experienced as a result of right mindfulness
what is experienced as a result of wrong concentration,
and what is experienced as a result of right concentration:

likewise what is experienced as a result of desire,[4]
what is experienced as a result of directed thought,[5]
what is experienced as a result of perception.

§

When desire is not suppressed,
directed thought is not suppressed,
perception is not suppressed.

Owing to these
there is experience.[6]

■

When desire is suppressed,
but directed [12] thought
and perception
are not suppressed,
owing to these
there is experience.

■

When desire
and directed thought
are suppressed,
but not perception,
then there is experience.)[7]

■

When desire
and directed thought
and perception,
are suppressed,
owing to that there is experience.

■

For one who has not attained
there is the effort to do so.[8]

When that state is attained,
owing to that there is experience."[9]

[1] I follow Comy. in the numbering of suttas. Text calls this section §11. [Ed.: changed in later versions of the PTS Pali.]

[2] Piṇḍa-pāta-nīhāraka Cf. infra on text 320.

[3] Padesena. Cf. Asḷ 30; Expos. i, 38. It seems to mean partim, i.e. for two weeks he examined certain states, and for three months (as below) certain other states.

[4] The eight kinds of lustful thoughts. Comy.

[5] The first trance.

[6] Vedayitaṇ.

[7] Text brackets parts not found in Burmese MSS. 1-2.

[8] Text atthi āyāmaṇ, but Comy. vāyāman ti = viriyaṁ.

[9] Comy. 'Super-worldly experiences of the fourth path.'

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