8.
The Second Discourse on the Basis for Spiritual Power
68.
"Before, monks, prior to the enlightenment, while still unenlightened, being just a Bodhisatta, I developed five qualities, I cultivated five qualities.
Which five?
I developed the basis for spiritual power that possesses concentration due to desire and volitional activities of striving, concentration due to energy...
concentration due to mind,
I developed the basis for spiritual power that possesses concentration due to investigation and volitional activities of striving, with enthusiasm as the fifth.
So I, monks, because of having developed and cultivated these qualities with enthusiasm as the fifth, towards whatever mental state to be realised by direct knowledge I inclined the mind for realisation by direct knowledge, in each and every case I attained the ability to witness, when there is a basis for mindfulness.
"If I wished - 'May I experience the various kinds of supernormal power, etc. may I exercise mastery with my body even as far as the Brahma world' - in each and every case I attained the ability to witness, when there is a basis for mindfulness.
"If I wished, etc. 'May I, through the elimination of the mental corruptions, realise by my own direct knowledge, in this very life, the liberation of mind and the liberation by wisdom that are free from mental corruptions and, having entered upon them, dwell in them' - in each and every case I attained the ability to witness, when there is a basis for mindfulness." The eighth.