{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an10.7/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an10.7","id":"suttacentral_an10.7","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an10.7/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"Then Venerable \u0100nanda went up to Venerable S\u0101riputta, and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side and said to S\u0101riputta: \u201cCould it be, reverend S\u0101riputta, that a mendicant might gain a state of immersion like this? They wouldn\u2019t perceive earth in earth, water in water, fire in fire, or air in air. And they wouldn\u2019t perceive the dimension of infinite space in the dimension of infinite space, the dimension of infinite consciousness in the dimension of infinite consciousness, the dimension of nothingness in the dimension of nothingness, or the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception in the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception. And they wouldn\u2019t perceive this world in this world, or the other world in the other world. And yet they would still perceive.\u201d \u201cIt could be, Reverend \u0100nanda.\u201d \u201cBut how could this be?\u201d \u201cReverend \u0100nanda, this one time I was staying right here at S\u0101vatth\u012b in the Dark Forest. There I gained a state of immersion like this. I didn\u2019t perceive earth in earth, water in water, fire in fire, or air in air. And I didn\u2019t perceive the dimension of infinite space in the dimension of infinite space, the dimension of infinite consciousness in the dimension of infinite consciousness, the dimension of nothingness in the dimension of nothingness, or the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception in the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception. And I didn\u2019t perceive this world in this world, or the other world in the other world. And yet I still perceived.\u201d \u201cBut at that time what did Reverend S\u0101riputta perceive?\u201d \u201cOne perception arose in me and another perception ceased: \u2018The cessation of continued existence is extinguishment. The cessation of continued existence is extinguishment.\u2019 Suppose there was a burning pile of twigs. One flame would arise and another would cease. In the same way, one perception arose in me and another perception ceased: \u2018The cessation of continued existence is extinguishment. The cessation of continued existence is extinguishment.\u2019 At that time I perceived that the cessation of continued existence is extinguishment.\u201d","title":"S\u0101riputta","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":349}