{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn40.8/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn40.8","id":"suttacentral_sn40.8","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn40.8/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cThey speak of this thing called the \u2018dimension of neither perception nor non-perception\u2019. What is the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception? It occurred to me: \u2018It\u2019s when a mendicant, going totally beyond the dimension of nothingness, enters and remains in the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception. This is called the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception.\u2019 And so \u2026 I was entering and remaining in the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception. While I was in that meditation, perception and focus accompanied by the dimension of nothingness 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 neither perception nor non-perception, brahmin! Settle your mind in the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception; unify your mind and immerse it in the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception.\u2019 And so, after some time \u2026 I entered and remained in the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception. 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 Neither Perception Nor Non-Perception","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":181}