SN28:2 Without Thought
- DG BB TBW © Translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi. (More copyright information)
1At Sāvatthī … . as above … The Venerable Ānanda saw the Venerable Sāriputta coming in the distance and said to him: "Friend Sāriputta, your faculties are serene, your complexion is pure and bright. In what dwelling has the Venerable Sāriputta spent the day?"
2"Here, friend, with the subsiding of thought and examination, I entered and dwelt in the second jhāna, which has internal confidence and unification of mind, is without thought and examination, and has rapture and happiness born of concentration.
Yet, friend, it did not occur to me, ‘I am attaining the second jhāna,’ or ‘I have attained the second jhāna,’ or ‘I have emerged from the second jhāna.’"
"It must be because I-making, mine-making, and the underlying tendency to conceit have been thoroughly uprooted in the Venerable Sāriputta for a long time that such thoughts did not occur to him."
1Sāvatthinidānaṁ. Addasā kho āyasmā ānando … pe … āyasmantaṁ sāriputtaṁ etadavoca: "vippasannāni kho te, āvuso sāriputta, indriyāni; parisuddho mukhavaṇṇo pariyodāto. Katamenāyasmā sāriputto ajja vihārena vihāsī"ti?
2"Idhāhaṁ, āvuso, vitakkavicārānaṁ vūpasamā ajjhattaṁ sampasādanaṁ cetaso ekodibhāvaṁ avitakkaṁ avicāraṁ samādhijaṁ pītisukhaṁ dutiyaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharāmi.
Tassa mayhaṁ, āvuso, na evaṁ hoti: ‘Ahaṁ dutiyaṁ jhānaṁ samāpajjāmī’ti vā ‘Ahaṁ dutiyaṁ jhānaṁ samāpanno’ti vā ‘Ahaṁ dutiyā jhānā vuṭṭhito’ti vā"ti. Tathā hi panāyasmato sāriputtassa dīgharattaṁ ahaṅkāramamaṅkāramānānusayā susamūhatā. Tasmā āyasmato sāriputtassa na evaṁ hoti: "‘Ahaṁ dutiyaṁ jhānaṁ samāpajjāmī’ti vā ‘Ahaṁ dutiyaṁ jhānaṁ samāpanno’ti vā ‘Ahaṁ dutiyā jhānā vuṭṭhito’ti vā"ti.
Dutiyaṁ.
