{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/angu/an3-91.htm","path":"bud/angu/an3-91.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/angu/an3-91.htm","text":"\"And what is the training in heightened virtue? There is the case where a monk is virtuous. He dwells restrained in accordance with the Patimokkha, consummate in his behavior & sphere of activity. He trains himself, having undertaken the training rules, seeing danger in the slightest fault. This is called the training in heightened virtue.\n\"And what is the training in heightened mind? There is the case where a monk -- quite withdrawn from sensuality, withdrawn from unskillful [mental] qualities -- enters & remains in the first jhana: rapture & pleasure born from withdrawal, accompanied by directed thought & evaluation. With the stilling of directed thought & evaluation, he enters & remains in the second jhana: rapture & pleasure born of composure, unification of awareness free from directed thought & evaluation -- internal assurance. With the fading of rapture he remains in equanimity, mindful & alert, and physically sensitive of pleasure. He enters & remains in the third jhana, of which the Noble Ones declare, 'Equanimous & mindful, he has a pleasurable abiding.' With the abandoning of pleasure & pain -- as with the earlier disappearance of elation & distress -- he enters & remains in the fourth jhana: purity of equanimity & mindfulness, neither pleasure nor pain. This is called the training in heightened mind.\n\"And what is the training in heightened discernment? There is the case where a monk, through the ending of the mental fermentations, enters & remains in the fermentation-free release of awareness & release of discernment, having known & made them manifest for himself right in the here & now. This is called the training in heightened discernment.\n\"These are the three trainings.\"\nHeightened virtue,\nheightened mind,\nheightened discernment:\npersistent,\nfirm,\nsteadfast,\nabsorbed in jhana,\nmindful,\nwith guarded faculties\nyou should practice them --\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as in front,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 so behind;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as behind,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 so in front;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as below,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 so above;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as above,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 so below;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as by day,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 so by night;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as by night,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 so by day;\nconquering all the directions\nwith limitless concentration.\nThis is called \nthe practice of training,\nas well as the pure way of life.\n[Following it,] you're called \nself-awakened in the world,\nenlightened,\none who's taken the path\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to its end.\nWith the cessation of sensory consciousness\nof one released in the stopping of craving,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the liberation of awareness\nof one released in the stopping of craving,\nis like the unbinding \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 of a flame.[1]\n1. For a discussion of this image, see The Mind Like Fire Unbound. [Go back]","title":"AN III.91: Sikkha Sutta","type":"page"}