{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn40.5/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn40.5","id":"suttacentral_sn40.5","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn40.5/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cThey speak of this thing called the \u2018dimension of infinite space\u2019. What is the dimension of infinite space? It occurred to me: \u2018It\u2019s when a mendicant, going totally beyond perceptions of form, with the disappearance of perceptions of impingement, not focusing on perceptions of diversity, aware that \u201cspace is infinite\u201d, enters and remains in the dimension of infinite space. This is called the dimension of infinite space.\u2019 And so \u2026 I was entering and remaining in the dimension of infinite space. While I was in that meditation, perception and focus accompanied by forms beset me. Then the Buddha came up to me with his psychic power and said, \u2018Moggall\u0101na, Moggall\u0101na! Don\u2019t neglect the dimension of infinite space, brahmin! Settle your mind in the dimension of infinite space; unify your mind and immerse it in the dimension of infinite space.\u2019 And so, after some time \u2026 I entered and remained in the dimension of infinite space. 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 Dimension of Infinite Space","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":177}