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The Discourse on Born of Seclusion
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On one occasion the Venerable Sāriputta was dwelling at Sāvatthī in Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's park.
Then the Venerable Sāriputta, having dressed in the earlier period of the day, taking his bowl and robe, entered Sāvatthī for almsfood.
Having walked for almsfood in Sāvatthī, after the meal, having returned from his alms round, he approached the Blind Men's Grove for the day residence.
Having plunged into the Blind Men's Grove, she sat down for the day residence at the foot of a certain tree.
Then the Venerable Sāriputta, in the evening, having emerged from seclusion, approached Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's park. The Venerable Ānanda saw the Venerable Sāriputta coming from afar. Having seen him, 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, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome mental states, enter and dwell in the first meditative absorption, which is accompanied by applied thought and sustained thought, with rapture and happiness born of seclusion. For me, friend, it does not occur thus - 'I am attaining the first meditative absorption' or 'I have attained the first meditative absorption' or 'I have emerged from the first 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 first meditative absorption' or 'I have attained the first meditative absorption' or 'I have emerged from the first meditative absorption.'" The first.