Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses

SN35: Connected Discourses on the Six Sense Bases

SN35:99 Concentration

1"Bhikkhus, develop concentration. A bhikkhu who is concentrated understands things as they really are. [n.84] This sutta and the next parallel 22:5–6. See III, n. 31.

"And what does he understand as they really are? He understands as it really is: ‘The eye is impermanent.’ He understands as it really is: ‘Forms are impermanent.’ … ‘Eye-consciousness is impermanent. ’ … ‘Eye-contact is impermanent.’ … ‘Whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition—whether pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant—that too is impermanent.’ …

"He understand as it really is: ‘The mind is impermanent.’ … He understand as it really is: ‘Whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition … that too is impermanent.’

"Bhikkhus, develop concentration. A bhikkhu who is concentrated understands things as they really are."

1"Samādhiṁ, bhikkhave, bhāvetha. Samāhito, bhikkhave, bhikkhu yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti.

Kiñca yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti? ‘Cakkhu aniccan’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti; ‘rūpā aniccā’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti; ‘cakkhuviññāṇaṁ aniccan’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti; ‘cakkhusamphasso anicco’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti. ‘Yampidaṁ cakkhusamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tampi aniccan’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti … pe …

‘mano aniccan’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti. Dhammā … manoviññāṇaṁ … manosamphasso … ‘yampidaṁ manosamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tampi aniccan’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti.

Samādhiṁ, bhikkhave, bhāvetha. Samāhito, bhikkhave, bhikkhu yathābhūtaṁ pajānātī"ti.


Chaṭṭhaṁ.

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