{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn40.7/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn40.7","id":"suttacentral_sn40.7","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn40.7/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cThey speak of this thing called the \u2018dimension of nothingness\u2019. What is the dimension of nothingness? It occurred to me: \u2018It\u2019s when a mendicant, going totally beyond the dimension of infinite consciousness, aware that \u201cthere is nothing at all\u201d, enters and remains in the dimension of nothingness. This is called the dimension of nothingness.\u2019 And so \u2026 I was entering and remaining in the dimension of nothingness. While I was in that meditation, perception and focus accompanied by the dimension of infinite consciousness 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 nothingness, brahmin! Settle your mind in the dimension of nothingness; unify your mind and immerse it in the dimension of nothingness.\u2019 And so, after some time \u2026 I entered and remained in the dimension of nothingness. 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 Nothingness","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":163}