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Subject: [K-list] A Practice Strategy that leads to Nonmaterial Absorpti
From: Jeffrey Brooks
On 2004/04/08 18:17, Jeffrey Brooks posted thus to the K-list:
A Practice Strategy that leads to Nonmaterial
Absorption
Arupa Jhana Practice Paths
Aneñja-sappaya Sutta, MN 106
Conducive to the Imperturbable
Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
For free distribution only.
3) ..."What if I -- overpowering the world [of the
five senses] and having determined my mind -- were to
dwell with an awareness that was abundant & enlarged?
Having done so, these evil, unskillful mental states
-- greed, ill will, & contentiousness -- would not
come into being. With their abandoning, my mind would
become unlimited, immeasurable, & well developed.'
Practicing & frequently abiding in this way, his mind
acquires confidence in that dimension. There being
full confidence, he either attains the
imperturbable[1] now or else is committed to
discernment. With the break-up of the body, after
death, it's possible that this leading-on
consciousness of his will go to the imperturbable.
This is declared to be the first practice conducive to
the imperturbable.
4)..."every form, is the four great elements or a form
derived from the four great elements.' Practicing &
frequently abiding in this way, his mind acquires
confidence in that dimension... consciousness of his
will go to the imperturbable. This is declared to be
the second practice conducive to the imperturbable.
5)..."perceptions in lives to come; forms here & now;
forms in lives to come; form-perceptions here & now;
form-perceptions in lives to come: both are
inconstant. This is declared to be the third practice
conducive to the imperturbable.
(The Base of Nothingness)
6. ..." perceptions of the imperturbable: all are
perceptions. Where they cease without remainder: that
is peaceful, that is exquisite, i.e., the dimension of
nothingness.' This is declared to be the first
practice conducive to the dimension of nothingness.
Practicing & frequently abiding in this way, his mind
acquires confidence in that dimension...This is
declared to be the first practice conducive to the
dimension of nothingness.
7."Then again, the disciple of the noble ones, having
gone into the wilderness, to the root of a tree, or
into an empty dwelling, considers this: 'This is empty
of self or of anything pertaining to self.' Practicing
& frequently abiding in this way, his mind acquires
confidence in that dimension...This is declared to be
the second practice conducive to the dimension of
nothingness.
8."Then again, the disciple of the noble ones
considers this: 'I am not anyone's anything anywhere;
nor is anything of mine in anyone anywhere'... This is
declared to be the third practice conducive to the
dimension of nothingness.
(the dimension of neither perception nor
non-perception)
9. "Then again, the disciple of the noble ones
considers this: 'Sensuality here & now; sensuality in
lives to come; sensual perceptions here & now; sensual
perceptions in lives to come; forms here & now; forms
in lives to come; form-perceptions here & now;
form-perceptions in lives to come; perceptions of the
imperturbable; perceptions of the dimension of
nothingness: all are perceptions... This is declared
to be the practice conducive to the dimension of
neither perception nor non-perception.
(Nibbana)
10. "It should not be, it should not occur to me; it
will not be, it will not occur to me. What is, what
has come to be, that I abandon' -- obtains
equanimity... What is, what has come to be, that I
abandon' -- obtains equanimity. He relishes that
equanimity, welcomes it, remains fastened to it.
12. "Without clinging/sustenance, Ananda, a monk is
totally unbound."
13. "There is the case, Ananda, where a disciple of
the noble ones considers this: 'Sensuality here & now;
sensuality in lives to come; sensual perceptions here
& now; sensual perceptions in lives to come; forms
here & now; forms in lives to come; form-perceptions
here & now; form-perceptions in lives to come;
perceptions of the imperturbable; perceptions of the
dimension of nothingness; perceptions of the dimension
of neither perception nor non-perception: that is an
identity, to the extent that there is an identity.
This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through
lack of clinging/sustenance.'
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/majjhima/mn106.html
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