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SN34: Connected Discourses on Meditation

SN34:7 Resolution in relation to Concentration

The same, but read "skilled in resolution." [n.305] Na abhinīhārakusalo. Spk has nothing helpful, but Spk-pṭ says: "Unskilled in resolving to elevate the meditation subject so that it partakes of distinction (kammaṭṭhanaṁ visesabhāgiyatāya abhinīharituṃ akusalo). This means being unable to raise it from the first jhāna to the second, from the second to the third, etc."
Mp III 354–55: "He is said to be skilled in resolution in regard to concentration when he is able to resolve on the concentration of the first jhāna, etc., for the sake of attaining the successively higher attainments."

1Sāvatthinidānaṁ. "Cattārome, bhikkhave, jhāyī. Katame cattāro? Idha, bhikkhave, ekacco jhāyī samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo hoti, na samādhismiṁ abhinīhārakusalo. Idha pana, bhikkhave, ekacco jhāyī samādhismiṁ abhinīhārakusalo hoti, na samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo. Idha pana, bhikkhave, ekacco jhāyī neva samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo hoti, na ca samādhismiṁ abhinīhārakusalo. Idha pana, bhikkhave, ekacco jhāyī samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo ca hoti, samādhismiṁ abhinīhārakusalo ca. Tatra, bhikkhave, yvāyaṁ jhāyī samādhismiṁ samādhikusalo ca hoti samādhismiṁ abhinīhārakusalo ca ayaṁ imesaṁ catunnaṁ jhāyīnaṁ aggo ca seṭṭho ca mokkho ca uttamo ca pavaro ca. Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, gavā khīraṁ … pe … pavaro cā"ti.


Sattamaṁ.

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