{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn48.40/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn48.40","id":"suttacentral_sn48.40","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn48.40/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, there are these five faculties. What five? The faculties of pain, sadness, pleasure, happiness, and equanimity. While a mendicant is meditating\u2014diligent, keen, and resolute\u2014the faculty of pain arises. They understand: \u2018The faculty of pain has arisen in me. And that has a basis, a source, a condition, and a reason. It\u2019s not possible that the faculty of pain will arise without a basis, a source, a condition, or a reason.\u2019 They understand the faculty of pain, its origin, its cessation, and where that faculty of pain that\u2019s arisen ceases without remainder. And where does that faculty of pain that\u2019s arisen cease without remainder? It\u2019s when a mendicant, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, enters and remains in the first absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of seclusion, while placing the mind and keeping it connected. That\u2019s where the faculty of pain that\u2019s arisen ceases without remainder. They\u2019re called a mendicant who understands the cessation of the faculty of pain, and who applies their mind to that end. While a mendicant is meditating\u2014diligent, keen, and resolute\u2014the faculty of sadness arises. They understand: \u2018The faculty of sadness has arisen in me. And that has a basis, a source, a condition, and a reason. It\u2019s not possible that the faculty of sadness will arise without a basis, a source, a condition, or a reason.\u2019 They understand the faculty of sadness, its origin, its cessation, and where that faculty of sadness that\u2019s arisen ceases without remainder. And where does that faculty of sadness that\u2019s arisen cease without remainder? It\u2019s when, as the placing of the mind and keeping it connected are stilled, a mendicant enters and remains in the second absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of immersion, with internal clarity and mind at one, without placing the mind and keeping it connected. That\u2019s where the faculty of sadness that\u2019s arisen ceases without remainder. They\u2019re called a mendicant who understands the cessation of the faculty of sadness, and who applies their mind to that end. While a mendicant is meditating\u2014diligent, keen, and resolute\u2014the faculty of pleasure arises. They understand: \u2018The faculty of pleasure has arisen in me. And that has a basis, a source, a condition, and a reason. It\u2019s not possible that the faculty of pleasure will arise without a basis, a source, a condition, or a reason.\u2019 They understand the faculty of pleasure, its origin, its cessation, and where that faculty of pleasure that\u2019s arisen ceases without remainder. And where does that faculty of pleasure that\u2019s arisen cease without remainder? It\u2019s when, with 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, \u2018Equanimous and mindful, one meditates in bliss.\u2019 That\u2019s where the faculty of pleasure that\u2019s arisen ceases without remainder. They\u2019re called a mendicant who understands the cessation of the faculty of pleasure, and who applies their mind to that end. While a mendicant is meditating\u2014diligent, keen, and resolute\u2014the faculty of happiness arises. They understand: \u2018The faculty of happiness has arisen in me. And that has a basis, a source, a condition, and a reason. It\u2019s not possible that the faculty of happiness will arise without a basis, a source, a condition, or a reason.\u2019 They understand the faculty of happiness, its origin, its cessation, and where that faculty of happiness that\u2019s arisen ceases without remainder. And where does that faculty of happiness that\u2019s arisen cease without remainder? It\u2019s when, giving up pleasure and pain, and disappearance former happiness and sadness, a mendicant enters and remains in the fourth absorption, without pleasure or pain, with pure equanimity and mindfulness. That\u2019s where the faculty of happiness that\u2019s arisen ceases without remainder. They\u2019re called a mendicant who understands the cessation of the faculty of happiness, and who applies their mind to that end. While a mendicant is meditating\u2014diligent, keen, and resolute\u2014the faculty of equanimity arises. They understand: \u2018The faculty of equanimity has arisen in me. And that has a basis, a source, a condition, and a reason. It\u2019s not possible that the faculty of equanimity will arise without a basis, a source, a condition, or a reason.\u2019 They understand the faculty of equanimity, its origin, its cessation, and where that faculty of equanimity that\u2019s arisen ceases without remainder. And where does that faculty of equanimity that\u2019s arisen cease without remainder? It\u2019s when a mendicant, going totally beyond the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception, enters and remains in the cessation of perception and feeling. That\u2019s where the faculty of equanimity that\u2019s arisen ceases without remainder. They\u2019re called a mendicant who understands the cessation of the faculty of equanimity, and who applies their mind to that end.\u201d","title":"Irregular Order","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":794}