Linked Discourses 34.9 1. Absorption Persistence in Immersion (SN34.9)

1.1

Sāvatthinidānaṁ.

At Sāvatthī.

1.2

“Cattārome, bhikkhave, jhāyī.

“Mendicants, there are these four meditators.

1.3

Katame cattāro?

What four?

1.4

Idha, bhikkhave, ekacco jhāyī samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo hoti, na samādhismiṁ sātaccakārī.

One meditator is skilled in immersion but not in practicing persistently for it. …”

1.5

Idha pana, bhikkhave, ekacco jhāyī samādhismiṁ sātaccakārī hoti, na samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo.

1.6

Idha pana, bhikkhave, ekacco jhāyī neva samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo hoti, na ca samādhismiṁ sātaccakārī.

1.7

Idha pana, bhikkhave, ekacco jhāyī samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo ca hoti, samādhismiṁ sātaccakārī ca.

1.8

Tatra, bhikkhave, yvāyaṁ jhāyī samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo ca hoti, samādhismiṁ sātaccakārī ca ayaṁ imesaṁ catunnaṁ jhāyīnaṁ aggo ca seṭṭho ca mokkho ca uttamo ca pavaro ca.

1.9

Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, gavā khīraṁ …pe…

1.10

pavaro cā”ti.

1.11

Navamaṁ.