Concentration Samṅdhi Sutta (AN 10:6)

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('â', This is peace, this is exquisite—the pacification of all fabrications; the relinquishing of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; unbinding.â Itâs in this way that a monk could have an attainment of concentration such that he would neither be percipient of earth with regard to earth, nor of water with regard to water, nor of fire⦠wind⦠the dimension of the infinitude of space⦠the dimension of the infinitude of consciousness⦠the dimension of nothingness⦠the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception⦠this world⦠nor of the next world with regard to the next world, and yet he would still be percipient." See also: DN 11; AN 9:36—37; AN 11:10 - --> - - - -