4.
The Discourse on Difference (Second)
124.
"Monks, there are these four persons found existing in the world.
Which four?
Here, monks, a certain person, quite secluded from sensual pleasures... etc.
he enters upon and dwells in the first meditative absorption.
Whatever is there pertaining to matter, pertaining to feeling, pertaining to perception, pertaining to activities, pertaining to consciousness - he regards those mental states as impermanent, as suffering, as a disease, as a boil, as a dart, as misery, as an affliction, as alien, as disintegrating, as empty, as non-self.
He, upon the body's collapse at death, is reborn in the company of the gods of the Pure Abodes.
This, monks, is a rebirth not shared with worldlings.
"Furthermore, monks, here a certain person, with the subsiding of applied and sustained thought... etc. the second meditative absorption, etc. the third meditative absorption... etc. he enters upon and dwells in the fourth meditative absorption. Whatever is there pertaining to matter, pertaining to feeling, pertaining to perception, pertaining to activities, pertaining to consciousness - he regards those mental states as impermanent, as suffering, as a disease, as a boil, as a dart, as misery, as an affliction, as alien, as disintegrating, as empty, as non-self. He, upon the body's collapse at death, is reborn in the company of the gods of the Pure Abodes. This, monks, is a rebirth not shared with worldlings. These, monks, are the four persons found existing in the world." The fourth.