9.
Connected Discourses on Meditative Absorption
1.
The Chapter of the Ganges Consecutive Repetitions
1-12.
The Twelve Discourses on Meditative Absorption and So On
923-934.
At Sāvatthī. "There are, monks, these four meditative absorptions.
Which four?
Here, monks, a monk, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome mental states, enters and dwells in the first meditative absorption, which is accompanied by applied thought and sustained thought, with rapture and happiness born of seclusion.
With the subsiding of applied and sustained thought, he enters and dwells in the second meditative absorption, which has internal confidence and unification of mind, is without applied thought and without sustained thought, with rapture and happiness born of concentration.
With the fading away of rapture, he dwells equanimous, mindful and fully aware, and experiences happiness with the body - that which the noble ones declare:
'One who is equanimous and mindful, one who dwells in happiness' - he enters and dwells in the third meditative absorption.
With the abandoning of pleasure and pain, and with the previous disappearance of joy and displeasure, he enters and dwells in the fourth meditative absorption, which has neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant and purity of mindfulness due to equanimity.
These, monks, are the four meditative absorptions."
"Just as, monks, the river Ganges slants towards the east, slopes towards the east, inclines towards the east; just so, monks, a monk developing the four meditative absorptions, cultivating the four meditative absorptions, slants towards Nibbāna, slopes towards Nibbāna, inclines towards Nibbāna. And how, monks, does a monk developing the four meditative absorptions, cultivating the four meditative absorptions, slant towards Nibbāna, slope towards Nibbāna, incline towards Nibbāna? Here, monks, a monk, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome mental states, enters and dwells in the first meditative absorption, which is accompanied by applied thought and sustained thought, with rapture and happiness born of seclusion. With the subsiding of applied and sustained thought, etc. the second meditative absorption, etc. the third meditative absorption... etc. he enters and dwells in the fourth meditative absorption. Thus, monks, a monk developing the four meditative absorptions, cultivating the four meditative absorptions, slants towards Nibbāna, slopes towards Nibbāna, inclines towards Nibbāna." The twelfth.
The Ganges Repetition Chapter is the first.
Its summary:
These two sixes are twelve, by that the chapter is called.
The Diligence Chapter should be expanded.
Its summary:
King, moon and sun, and cloth is the tenth stanza.
The Strenuous Deeds Chapter should be expanded.
Its summary:
With space and two clouds, boat, visitor, and river.
The Search Chapter should be expanded.
Its summary:
Barrenness, stain, and trouble, feeling, craving, and with thirst.
5.
The Chapter on the Mental Floods
1-10.
The Discourse Beginning with Mental Floods
967-976.
"There are, monks, these five higher mental fetters.
Which five?
Lust for fine-material existence, lust for immaterial existence, conceit, restlessness, ignorance -
these, monks, are the five higher mental fetters.
For the direct knowledge, full understanding, utter elimination, and abandoning of these five higher mental fetters, the four meditative absorptions are to be developed.
Which four?
Here, monks, a monk, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome mental states, enters and dwells in the first meditative absorption, which is accompanied by applied thought and sustained thought, with rapture and happiness born of seclusion.
With the subsiding of applied and sustained thought, he enters and dwells in the second meditative absorption, which has internal confidence and unification of mind, is without applied thought and without sustained thought, with rapture and happiness born of concentration... etc.
the third meditative absorption... etc.
he enters and dwells in the fourth meditative absorption.
For the direct knowledge, full understanding, utter elimination, and abandoning of these five higher mental fetters, these four meditative absorptions are to be developed" - this should be expanded.
The tenth.
The Flood Chapter is the fifth.
Its summary:
Types of Sensual Pleasure, Mental Hindrance, Aggregates, Lower and Higher.
The Connected Discourses on Meditative Absorption is the ninth.