{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn28.1/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn28.1","id":"suttacentral_sn28.1","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn28.1/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time Venerable S\u0101riputta was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. Then Venerable S\u0101riputta robed up in the morning and, taking his bowl and robe, entered S\u0101vatth\u012b for alms. He wandered for alms in S\u0101vatth\u012b. After the meal, on his return from almsround, he went to the Dark Forest for the day\u2019s meditation, plunged deep into it, and sat at the root of a tree to meditate. Then in the late afternoon, S\u0101riputta came out of retreat and went to Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. Venerable \u0100nanda saw him coming off in the distance, and said to him: \u201cReverend S\u0101riputta, your faculties are so very clear, and your complexion is pure and bright. What meditation were you practicing today?\u201d \u201cReverend, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, I entered and remained in the first absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of seclusion, while placing the mind and keeping it connected. But it didn\u2019t occur to me: \u2018I am entering the first absorption\u2019 or \u2018I have entered the first absorption\u2019 or \u2018I am emerging from the first absorption\u2019.\u201d \u201cThat must be because Venerable S\u0101riputta has long ago totally eradicated I-making, mine-making, and the underlying tendency to conceit. That\u2019s why it didn\u2019t occur to you: \u2018I am entering the first absorption\u2019 or \u2018I have entered the first absorption\u2019 or \u2018I am emerging from the first absorption\u2019.\u201d","title":"Born of Seclusion","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":230}