Aṅguttara Nikāya
Pañcaka Nipāta
III: Pañc'aṅgika Vagga

The Book of the Fives

III: The Fivefold

Sutta 27

Samādhi Suttaṃ

Concentration¹

 

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Thus have I heard:

Once the Exalted One dwelt near Sāvatthī;
and there he addressed the monks, saying:

"Monks."

'Yes, lord,' they replied; and the Exalted One said:

"Monks, being wise and mindful,
make become immeasurable concentration;
for in those who do,
verily in each one of you,
there shall arise a fivefold² knowledge.

What fivefold knowledge?

"This concentration is verily
a present ease
and a source of ease for the future"
— even in each this knowledge arises;

"This concentration is Ariyan,³
not of the flesh"
— even in each this knowledge arises;

"This concentration
is not the practice of base men"⁴
— even in each this knowledge arises;

"This concentration is the peace,
the excellent thing,⁵
the winning of calm,
the attainment of one-pointedness,
and the restraint that prevails
is not a conscious restraint"
— even in each this knowledge arises;

Self-possessed,
I verily enter upon this concentration,
self-possessed,
I verily emerge from this concentration"
— even in each this knowledge arises.

Monks, being wise and mindful,
make become immeasurable concentration;
for in those who do,
verily in each one of you,
there shall arise this fivefold knowledge.'

 

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¹ Samādhi.

² These five recur at D. iii, 278 (Dial. iii, 256), the fifth at G.S. i, 233.

³ Comy. kilesehi ārakattā ariyo, but see A. iv, 145.

⁴ But of Buddhas and great men (Comy.).

⁵ Comy. not subject to satiety (atappaniyaṭṭhena).