{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an9.52/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an9.52","id":"suttacentral_an9.52","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an9.52/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cReverend, they speak of \u2018a safe place\u2019. In what way did the Buddha speak of a safe place?\u201d \u201cFirst, take a mendicant who, quite secluded from sensual pleasures \u2026 enters and remains in the first absorption. To this extent the Buddha spoke of a safe place in a qualified sense. \u2026 Furthermore, take a mendicant who, going totally beyond the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception, enters and remains in the cessation of perception and feeling. And, having seen with wisdom, their defilements come to an end. To this extent the Buddha spoke of a safe place in a definitive sense.\u201d","title":"A Safe Place","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":101}