1: The Book of the Ones
1. Obsession of the Mind - 297–305
- DG BB TBW © Translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi (More copyright information)
(297) "Bhikkhus, there is one thing that, when developed and cultivated, leads exclusively to disenchantment, to dispassion, to cessation, to peace, to direct knowledge, to enlightenment, to nibbāna. What is that one thing? Recollection of the Dhamma …. (298) Recollection of the Saṅgha …. (299) Recollection of virtuous behavior …. (300) Recollection of generosity …. (301) Recollection of the devas …. (302) Mindfulness of breathing …. (303) Mindfulness of death …. (304) Mindfulness directed to the body …. (305) Recollection of peace. [n.163] The meditation subjects from recollection of the Dhamma through recollection of the devas are the other five recollections, also discussed in 6:10 §§2–6 and elaborated at Vism 213–26, Ppn 7.68–118. Mindfulness of breathing (ānāpānassati) is dealt with more fully at 10:60 §10, SN 54:10, V 322–25, and SN 54:13, V 328–33. For the commentarial treatment, see Vism 267–93, Ppn 8.145–244. Mindfulness of death (maraṇassati) is at AN6.19, AN6.20, AN8.73, and AN8.74, elaborated at Vism 229–39, Ppn 8.1–41. Mindfulness directed to the body (kāyagatā sati), as the unattractive nature of the body, is at AN10.60 §3, and elaborated at Vism 239–66, Ppn 8.42–144. Recollection of peace (upasamānussati) occurs only here and is not separately explained but is treated at Vism 293–94, Ppn 8.245–51; this treatment closely resembles the perception of dispassion and the perception of cessation at AN10.60 §§6–7. This is that one thing that, when developed and cultivated, leads exclusively to disenchantment … to nibbāna."
1"Ekadhammo, bhikkhave, bhāvito bahulīkato ekantanibbidāya virāgāya nirodhāya upasamāya abhiññāya sambodhāya nibbānāya saṁvattati. Katamo ekadhammo? Dhammānussati … pe … saṅghānussati … sīlānussati … cāgānussati … devatānussati … ānāpānassati … maraṇassati … kāyagatāsati … upasamānussati. Ayaṁ kho, bhikkhave, ekadhammo bhāvito bahulīkato ekantanibbidāya virāgāya nirodhāya upasamāya abhiññāya sambodhāya nibbānāya saṁvattatī"ti.
Vaggo paṭhamo.
