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Saṃyutta Nikāya - The Connected Discourses

Connected Discourses with Moggallana: SN40:8 The Base of Neither-Perception-Nor-Nonperception

  • A Saddhamma Study Group translation from the Pāḷi text (coming sooner or later).

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1 "‘Nevasaññānāsaññāyatanaṃ, nevasaññānāsaññāyatanan’ti vuccati. Katamaṃ nu kho nevasaññānāsaññāyatananti? Tassa mayhaṃ, āvuso, etadahosi:  ‘idha bhikkhu sabbaso ākiñcaññāyatanaṃ samatikkamma nevasaññānāsaññāyatanaṃ upasampajja viharati. Idaṃ vuccati nevasaññānāsaññāyatanan’ti. So khvāhaṃ, āvuso, sabbaso ākiñcaññāyatanaṃ samatikkamma nevasaññānāsaññāyatanaṃ upasampajja viharāmi. Tassa mayhaṃ, āvuso, iminā vihārena viharato ākiñcaññāyatanasahagatā saññāmanasikārā samudācaranti.

2 Atha kho maṃ, āvuso, bhagavā iddhiyā upasankamitvā etadavoca:  ‘moggallāna, moggallāna. Mā, brāhmaṇa, nevasaññānāsaññāyatanaṃ pamādo, nevasaññānāsaññāyatane cittaṃ saṇṭhapehi, nevasaññānāsaññāyatane cittaṃ ekodiṃ karohi, nevasaññānāsaññāyatane cittaṃ samādahā’ti. So khvāhaṃ, āvuso, aparena samayena sabbaso ākiñcaññāyatanaṃ samatikkamma nevasaññānāsaññāyatanaṃ upasampajja vihāsiṃ. Yañhi taṃ, āvuso, sammā vadamāno vadeyya … pe … mahābhiññataṃ patto"ti.

Aṭṭhamaṃ.