{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn21.1/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn21.1","id":"suttacentral_sn21.1","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn21.1/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. There Venerable Mah\u0101moggall\u0101na addressed the mendicants: \u201cReverends, mendicants!\u201d \u201cReverend,\u201d they replied. Venerable Mah\u0101moggall\u0101na said this: \u201cJust now, reverends, as I was in private retreat this thought came to mind: \u2018They speak of this thing called \u201cnoble silence\u201d. What then is this noble silence?\u2019 It occurred to me: \u2018As the placing of the mind and keeping it connected are stilled, a mendicant enters and remains in the second absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of immersion, with internal clarity and mind at one, without placing the mind and keeping it connected. This is called noble silence.\u2019 And so, as the placing of the mind and keeping it connected were stilled, I was entering and remaining in the second absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of immersion, with internal clarity and mind at one, without placing the mind and keeping it connected. While I was in that meditation, perception and focus accompanied by placing the mind beset me. Then the Buddha came up to me with his psychic power and said, \u2018Moggall\u0101na, Moggall\u0101na! Don\u2019t neglect noble silence, brahmin! Settle your mind in noble silence; unify your mind and bring it to immersion in noble silence.\u2019 And so, after some time, as the placing of the mind and keeping it connected were stilled, I entered and remained in the second absorption \u2026 So if anyone should be rightly called a disciple who attained to great direct knowledge with help from the Teacher, it\u2019s me.\u201d","title":"With Kolita","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":263}