{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an5.176/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an5.176","id":"suttacentral_an5.176","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.176/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"Then the householder An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika, escorted by around five hundred lay followers, went up to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. The Buddha said to him: \u201cHouseholders, you have supplied the mendicant Sa\u1e45gha with robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick. But you should not be content with just this much. So you should train like this: \u2018How can we, from time to time, enter and dwell in the rapture of seclusion?\u2019 That\u2019s how you should train.\u201d When he said this, Venerable S\u0101riputta said to the Buddha, \u201cIt\u2019s incredible, sir, it\u2019s amazing! How well said this was by the Buddha: \u2018Householders, you have supplied the mendicant Sa\u1e45gha with robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick. But you should not be content with just this much. So you should train like this: \u201cHow can we, from time to time, enter and dwell in the rapture of seclusion?\u201d That\u2019s how you should train.\u2019 At a time when a noble disciple enters and dwells in the rapture of seclusion, five things aren\u2019t present in him. The pain and sadness connected with sensual pleasures. The pleasure and happiness connected with sensual pleasures. The pain and sadness connected with the unskillful. The pleasure and happiness connected with the unskillful. The pain and sadness connected with the skillful. At a time when a noble disciple enters and dwells in the rapture of seclusion, these five things aren\u2019t present in him.\u201d \u201cGood, good, S\u0101riputta! At a time when a noble disciple enters and dwells in the rapture of seclusion, five things aren\u2019t present in him. The pain and sadness connected with sensual pleasures. The pleasure and happiness connected with sensual pleasures. The pain and sadness connected with the unskillful. The pleasure and happiness connected with the unskillful. The pain and sadness connected with the skillful. At a time when a noble disciple enters and dwells in the rapture of seclusion, these five things aren\u2019t present in him.\u201d","title":"Rapture","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":328}