55.
The Discourse on Perseverance as Root with Suitable Practice
716.
At Sāvatthī.
"Monks, there are these four meditators.
Which four?
Here, monks, a certain meditator is one who acts with perseverance regarding concentration, but not one who does what is suitable regarding concentration.
Here again, monks, a certain meditator is one who does what is suitable regarding concentration, but not one who acts with perseverance regarding concentration.
Here again, monks, a certain meditator is neither one who acts with perseverance regarding concentration, nor one who does what is suitable regarding concentration.
Here again, monks, a certain meditator is both one who acts with perseverance regarding concentration and one who does what is suitable regarding concentration.
Therein, monks, the meditator who is both one who acts with perseverance regarding concentration and one who does what is suitable regarding concentration is the foremost and the best and the chief and the highest and the most excellent among these four meditators.
Just as, monks, from a cow comes milk, from milk comes curds, from curds comes butter, from butter comes ghee, from ghee comes the cream of ghee, and therein the cream of ghee is declared the foremost;
so too, monks, the meditator who is both one who acts with perseverance regarding concentration and one who does what is suitable regarding concentration is the foremost and the best and the chief and the highest and the most excellent among these four meditators."
This is what the Blessed One said.
Those monks, delighted, rejoiced in what the Blessed One had said.
The fifty-fifth.
The Connected Discourses on Meditative Absorption is complete.
Its summary:
Resort, resolution, attentively, perseverance, and also suitable.
The Aggregate Chapter is the third.
Its summary:
Defilements, Sāriputta, and Serpents, Supaṇṇas, Gandhabbas;
Valāha, Vaccha, Absorption - thirteen in the Aggregates Chapter.
The Pāḷi of the Connected Discourses on the Aggregate Chapter is concluded.