3.
The Discourse on Rapture
334.
At Sāvatthī.
The Venerable Ānanda saw... etc.
"Your faculties are indeed very clear, friend Sāriputta;
your complexion is pure and bright.
With what abiding has the Venerable Sāriputta dwelt today?"
"Here I, friend, with the fading away of rapture, dwelt equanimous, mindful and fully aware, and experience happiness with the body; that which the noble ones declare: 'One who is equanimous and mindful, one who dwells in happiness' - I enter and dwell in the third meditative absorption. For me, friend, it does not occur thus - 'I am attaining the third meditative absorption' or 'I have attained the third meditative absorption' or 'I have emerged from the third meditative absorption.'" "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 third meditative absorption' or 'I have attained the third meditative absorption' or 'I have emerged from the third meditative absorption.'" The third.