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Samadhi Sutta: Concentration

Samadhi Sutta

Summary: The Buddha recommends concentration practice as a way to develop discernment.

SN 35.99 PTS: S iv 80 CDB ii 1181

translated from the Pali by

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

1997-2018

- Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammā-sambuddhassa -

“Develop concentration, monks. A concentrated monk discerns things as they actually are present. And what does he discern as it actually is present?

“He discerns, as it actually is present, that 'The eye is inconstant'… 'Forms are inconstant'… 'Eye-consciousness is inconstant'… 'Eye-contact is inconstant'… 'Whatever arises in dependence on eye-contact, experienced either as pleasure, as pain, or as neither-pleasure-nor-pain, that too is inconstant.'

“He discerns, as it actually is present, that 'The ear is inconstant'… 'The nose is inconstant'… 'The tongue is inconstant'… 'The body is inconstant”…

“He discerns, as it actually is present, that 'The intellect is inconstant'… 'Ideas are inconstant'… 'Intellect-consciousness is inconstant'… 'Intellect-contact is inconstant'… 'Whatever arises in dependence on intellect-contact, experienced either as pleasure, as pain, or as neither-pleasure-nor-pain, that too is inconstant.'

“So develop concentration, monks. A concentrated monk discerns things as they actually are present.”

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