2.
The Discourse on What Is Without Applied Thought
333.
At Sāvatthī.
The venerable Ānanda saw... etc.
he said this to the venerable Sāriputta -
"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 subsiding of applied and sustained thought, enter and dwell in the second meditative absorption, which has internal confidence and unification of mind, is without applied thought and without sustained thought, with rapture and bliss born of concentration. For me, friend, it does not occur thus - 'I am attaining the second meditative absorption' or 'I have attained the second meditative absorption' or 'I have emerged from the second 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 second meditative absorption' or 'I have attained the second meditative absorption' or 'I have emerged from the second meditative absorption.'" The second.