{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn40.3/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn40.3","id":"suttacentral_sn40.3","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn40.3/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cThey speak of this thing called the \u2018third absorption\u2019. What is the third absorption? It occurred to me: \u2018With the fading away of rapture, a mendicant enters and remains in the third absorption, where they meditate with equanimity, mindful and aware, experiencing for themselves the bliss of which the noble ones declare, \u201cEquanimous and mindful, one meditates in bliss.\u201d This is called the third absorption.\u2019 And so \u2026 I was entering and remaining in the third absorption. While I was in that meditation, perception and focus accompanied by rapture beset me. Then the Buddha came up to me with his psychic power and said, \u2018Moggall\u0101na, Moggall\u0101na! Don\u2019t neglect the third absorption, brahmin! Settle your mind in the third absorption; unify your mind and immerse it in the third absorption.\u2019 And so, after some time \u2026 I entered and remained in the third absorption. 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":"A Question About the Third Absorption","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":165}