{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an6.70/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an6.70","id":"suttacentral_an6.70","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an6.70/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, it is quite impossible that a mendicant without immersion that is peaceful, refined, tranquil, and unified will wield the many kinds of psychic power: multiplying themselves and becoming one again; materializing and dematerializing; going unobstructed through a wall, a rampart, or a mountain as if through space; diving in and out of the earth as if it were water; walking on water as if it were earth; flying cross-legged through the sky like a bird; touching and stroking with the hand the sun and moon, so mighty and powerful. They control the body as far as the realm of divinity. It\u2019s impossible that with clairaudience that is purified and superhuman, they\u2019ll hear both kinds of sounds, human and heavenly, whether near or far. It\u2019s impossible that they\u2019ll understand the minds of other beings and individuals, having encompassed them with their own mind, understanding mind with greed as \u2018mind with greed\u2019 \u2026 and freed mind as \u2018freed mind\u2019. It\u2019s impossible that they\u2019ll recollect many kinds of past lives, with features and details. It\u2019s impossible that with clairvoyance that is purified and surpasses the human, they\u2019ll understand how sentient beings pass on according to their deeds. It\u2019s impossible that they\u2019ll realize the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom, and live having realized it with their own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements. But it\u2019s quite possible that a mendicant who has immersion that is peaceful, refined, tranquil, and unified will wield the many kinds of psychic power \u2026 It\u2019s possible that with clairaudience that is purified and superhuman, they\u2019ll hear both kinds of sounds \u2026 It\u2019s possible that they\u2019ll understand the minds of other beings \u2026 It\u2019s possible that they\u2019ll recollect many kinds of past lives, with features and details. It\u2019s possible that with clairvoyance that is purified and superhuman, they\u2019ll understand how sentient beings pass on according to their deeds. It\u2019s possible that they\u2019ll realize the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom, and live having realized it with their own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements.\u201d","title":"Immersion","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":350}