{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.124/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.124","id":"suttacentral_an4.124","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.124/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, these four individuals are found in the world. What four? Take an individual who, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, enters and remains in the first absorption \u2026 They contemplate the phenomena there\u2014included in form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness\u2014as impermanent, as suffering, as diseased, as a boil, as a dart, as gloom, as an affliction, as alien, as breaking apart, as empty, as not-self. When their body breaks up, after death, they\u2019re reborn in the company of the gods of the pure abodes. This rebirth is distinct from that of ordinary people. Furthermore, take an individual who, as the placing of the mind and keeping it connected are stilled, enters and remains in the second absorption \u2026 third absorption \u2026 fourth absorption \u2026 They contemplate the phenomena there\u2014included in form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness\u2014as impermanent, as suffering, as diseased, as a boil, as a dart, as gloom, as an affliction, as alien, as breaking apart, as empty, as not-self. When their body breaks up, after death, they\u2019re reborn in the company of the gods of the pure abodes. This rebirth is distinct from that of ordinary people. These are the four individuals found in the world.\u201d","title":"Difference (2nd)","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":202}