{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn40.6/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn40.6","id":"suttacentral_sn40.6","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn40.6/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cThey speak of this thing called the \u2018dimension of infinite consciousness\u2019. What is the dimension of infinite consciousness? It occurred to me: \u2018It\u2019s when a mendicant, going totally beyond the dimension of infinite space, aware that \u201cconsciousness is infinite\u201d, enters and remains in the dimension of infinite consciousness. This is called the dimension of infinite consciousness.\u2019 And so \u2026 I was entering and remaining in the dimension of infinite consciousness. While I was in that meditation, perception and focus accompanied by the dimension of infinite space 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 consciousness, brahmin! Settle your mind in the dimension of infinite consciousness; unify your mind and immerse it in the dimension of infinite consciousness.\u2019 And so, after some time \u2026 I entered and remained in the dimension of infinite consciousness. 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 Consciousness","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":170}