{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn54.12/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn54.12","id":"suttacentral_sn54.12","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn54.12/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time Venerable Lomasaka\u1e45giya was staying in the land of the Sakyans, near Kapilavatthu in the Banyan Tree Monastery. Then Mah\u0101n\u0101ma the Sakyan went up to Venerable Lomasaka\u1e45giya, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him, \u201cSir, is the meditation of a trainee just the same as the meditation of a realized one? Or is the meditation of a trainee different from the meditation of a realized one?\u201d \u201cReverend Mah\u0101n\u0101ma, the meditation of a trainee and a realized one are not the same; they are different. Those mendicants who are trainees haven\u2019t achieved their heart\u2019s desire, but live aspiring for the supreme sanctuary from the yoke. They meditate after giving up the five hindrances. What five? The hindrances of sensual desire, ill will, dullness and drowsiness, restlessness and remorse, and doubt. Those who are trainee mendicants \u2026 meditate after giving up the five hindrances. Those mendicants who are perfected\u2014who have ended the defilements, completed the spiritual journey, done what had to be done, laid down the burden, achieved their heart\u2019s goal, utterly ended the fetter of continued existence, and are rightly freed through enlightenment\u2014for them, the five hindrances are cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, and unable to arise in the future. What five? The hindrances of sensual desire, ill will, dullness and drowsiness, restlessness and remorse, and doubt. Those mendicants who are perfected\u2014who have ended the defilements \u2026 for them, the five hindrances are cut off at the root \u2026 and unable to arise in the future. And here\u2019s another way to understand how the meditation of a trainee and a realized one are different. At one time the Buddha was staying in a forest near Icch\u0101na\u1e45gala. There he addressed the mendicants, \u2018Mendicants, I wish to go on retreat for three months. No-one should approach me, except the one who brings my almsfood.\u2019 \u2018Yes, sir,\u2019 replied those mendicants. And no-one approached him, except the one who brought the almsfood. Then after three months had passed, the Buddha came out of retreat and addressed the mendicants: \u2018Mendicants, if wanderers who follow another religion were to ask you: \u201cReverends, what was the ascetic Gotama\u2019s usual meditation during the rainy season residence?\u201d You should answer them like this: \u201cReverends, the ascetic Gotama\u2019s usual meditation during the rainy season residence was immersion due to mindfulness of breathing.\u201d In this regard: mindful, I breathe in. Mindful, I breathe out. Breathing in heavily I know: \u201cI\u2019m breathing in heavily.\u201d Breathing out heavily I know: \u201cI\u2019m breathing out heavily.\u201d \u2026 I know: \u201cI\u2019ll breathe in observing letting go.\u201d I know: \u201cI\u2019ll breathe out observing letting go.\u201d For if anything should be rightly called \u201cnoble meditation\u201d, or else \u201cdivine meditation\u201d, or else \u201ca realized one\u2019s meditation\u201d, it\u2019s immersion due to mindfulness of breathing. For those mendicants who are trainees\u2014who haven\u2019t achieved their heart\u2019s desire, but live aspiring for the supreme sanctuary from the yoke\u2014the development and cultivation of immersion due to mindfulness of breathing leads to the ending of defilements. For those mendicants who are perfected\u2014who have ended the defilements, completed the spiritual journey, done what had to be done, laid down the burden, achieved their heart\u2019s goal, utterly ended the fetter of continued existence, and are rightly freed through enlightenment\u2014the development and cultivation of immersion due to mindfulness of breathing leads to blissful meditation in this very life, and to mindfulness and awareness. For if anything should be rightly called \u201cnoble meditation\u201d, or else \u201cdivine meditation\u201d, or else \u201ca realized one\u2019s meditation\u201d, it\u2019s immersion due to mindfulness of breathing.\u2019 This is another way to understand how the meditation of a trainee and a realized one are different.\u201d","title":"In Doubt","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":609}