{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an9.61/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an9.61","id":"suttacentral_an9.61","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an9.61/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cReverend, they speak of \u2018progressive cessation\u2019. What is the progressive cessation that the Buddha spoke of?\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 progressive cessation 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 progressive cessation in a definitive sense.\u201d","title":"Progressive Cessation","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":97}