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Oghādi Sutta [SN 53.45–54, PTS 5.310]

Also known as: Oghādisuttaṃ

1-10.

The Discourse Beginning with Mental Floods

967-976.More Details "There are, monks, these five higher mental fetters. Which five? Lust for fine-material-sphere existence, lust for immaterial-sphere 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 upon and dwells in the first meditative absorption, which is accompanied by applied thought and sustained thought, with rapture and bliss born of seclusion. With the subsiding of applied and sustained thought, he enters upon 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 bliss born of concentration... etc. the third meditative absorption... etc. he enters upon 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.

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