4.
The Discourse on Equanimity
335.
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 abandoning of bliss and pain, and with the prior disappearance of pleasure and displeasure, enter and dwell in the fourth meditative absorption, which has neither-pain-nor-bliss and purity of mindfulness due to equanimity. For me, friend, it does not occur thus - 'I am attaining the fourth meditative absorption' or 'I have attained the fourth meditative absorption' or 'I have emerged from the fourth 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 fourth meditative absorption' or 'I have attained the fourth meditative absorption' or 'I have emerged from the fourth meditative absorption.'" The fourth.