9.
The Discourse on the Attainment of Cessation
340.
At Sāvatthī.
Then the Venerable Sāriputta... etc.
"Here I, friend, with the complete transcendence of the plane of neither-perception-nor-non-perception, enter and dwell in the cessation of perception and feeling.
For me, friend, it does not occur thus -
'I am attaining the cessation of perception and feeling' or 'I have attained the cessation of perception and feeling' or 'I have emerged from the cessation of perception and feeling.'"
"Because indeed for the Venerable Sāriputta the underlying tendencies to I-making, mine-making, and conceit have been well uprooted for a long time.
Therefore for the Venerable Sāriputta it does not occur thus -
'I am attaining the cessation of perception and feeling' or 'I have attained the cessation of perception and feeling' or 'I have emerged from the cessation of perception and feeling.'"
The ninth.