Trainings (2) Sikkha Sutta (AN 3:91)

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('â', Equanimous & mindful, he has a pleasant abiding.â With the abandoning of pleasure & pain—as with the earlier disappearance of elation & distress—he enters & remains in the fourth jhṅna: purity of equanimity & mindfulness, neither pleasure nor pain. This is called the training in heightened mind. "And what is the training in heightened discernment? There is the case where a monk, through the ending of the effluents, enters & remains in the effluent-free awareness-release & discernment-release, having directly known & realized them for himself right in the here & now. This is called the training in heightened discernment. "These are the three trainings." Heightened virtue, heightened mind, heightened discernment: persistent, firm, steadfast, absorbed in jhṅna, mindful, with guarded faculties, you should practice them— as in front, so behind; as behind, so in front; as below, so above; as above, so below; as by day, so by night; as by night, so by day; conquering all the directions with limitless concentration. This is called the practice of training, as well as the pure way of life. (Following it,) youâre called self-awakened in the world, enlightened, one whoâs taken the path to its end. With the cessation of sensory consciousness of one released in the stopping of craving, the liberation of awareness of one released in the stopping of craving, is like the unbinding of a flame.1 Note 1. For a discussion of this image, see The Mind Like Fire Unbound. - --> - - - -