Detached Paṭilīna Sutta (AN 4:38)
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('â', The cosmos is eternal,â ),
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('â', The cosmos is not eternal,â ),
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('â', The cosmos is finite,â ),
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('â', The cosmos is infinite,â ),
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('â', The soul & the body are the same,â ),
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('â', The soul is one thing and the body another,â ),
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('â', After death a Tathṅgata exists,â ),
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('â', After death a Tathṅgata does not exist,â ),
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('â', After death a Tathṅgata both does & does not exist,â ),
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('â', After death a Tathṅgata neither does nor does not exist.â All of these he has thrown off, shaken off, renounced, vomited up, let go, abandoned, relinquished. This is how a monk has shaken off idiosyncratic truths. "And how has a monk thoroughly given up searching? There is the case where a monk has abandoned his search for sensuality, has abandoned his search for becoming, and has allayed his search for a holy life.3 This is how a monk has thoroughly given up searching. "And how is a monk calmed in his bodily fabrication? There is the case where a monk, with the abandoning of pleasure & pain—as with the earlier disappearance of elation & distress—enters & remains in the fourth jhṅna: purity of equanimity & mindfulness, neither pleasure nor pain. This is how a monk is calmed in his bodily fabrication. "And how is a monk detached? There is the case where a monkâs conceit, ),
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('â', I am,â is abandoned, its root destroyed, made like a palmyra stump, deprived of the conditions of development, not destined for future arising. This is how a monk is detached." Sensuality-search, becoming-search, together with the holy-life search— i.e., grasping at ),
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('â', such is the truthâ based on an accumulation of viewpoints: Through the relinquishing of searches & the abolishing of viewpoints of one dispassionate to all passion, and released in the ending of craving, he, a monk peaceful, mindful, calmed, undefeated, awakened with the breaking-through of conceit, is said to be detached. Notes 1. Pacceka can also mean "singular" or "personal." Idiosyncratic truths are the opposite of noble truths, which are universal. See Sn 4:8 and Sn 4:12. 2. "Bodily fabrication" (kṅya-saṃkhṅra) is a technical term for the in-and-out breath. See MN 44. On the stilling of the in-and-out breath as a defining feature of the fourth jhṅna, see SN 36:11, AN 9:31, and AN 10:72. The definition of the calming of bodily fabrication given in this sutta helps to explain what is meant by the fourth step in mindfulness of breathing: "He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe in calming bodily fabrication.â He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe out calming bodily fabrication.â" See MN 118. 3. On these three searches, see Iti 54–55. The Commentary to this sutta says that the search for a holy life is allayed with the path of arahantship, although the search for a holy life in the form of views subsides earlier with the path of stream-entry. See also: AN 10:20 - --> - - - -