The Lamp Dīpa Sutta (SN 54:8)
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('â', I am breathing in longâ; or breathing out long, he discerns, ),
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('â', I am breathing out long.â [2] Or breathing in short, he discerns, ),
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('â', I am breathing in shortâ; or breathing out short, he discerns, ),
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('â', I am breathing out short.â [3] He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe in sensitive to the entire body.â He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe out sensitive to the entire body.â [4] 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 "[5] He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe in sensitive to rapture.â He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe out sensitive to rapture.â [6] He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe in sensitive to pleasure.â He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe out sensitive to pleasure.â [7] He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe in sensitive to mental fabrication.â He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe out sensitive to mental fabrication.â [8] He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe in calming mental fabrication.â He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe out calming mental fabrication.â "[9] He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe in sensitive to the mind.â He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe out sensitive to the mind.â [10] He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe in satisfying the mind.â He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe out satisfying the mind.â [11] He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe in steadying the mind.â He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe out steadying the mind. [12] He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe in releasing the mind.â He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe out releasing the mind.â "[13] He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe in focusing on inconstancy.â He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe out focusing on inconstancy.â [14] He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe in focusing on dispassion [lit: fading].â He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe out focusing on dispassion.â [15] He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe in focusing on cessation.â He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe out focusing on cessation.â [16] He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe in focusing on relinquishment.â He trains himself, ),
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('â', I will breathe out focusing on relinquishment.â "This is how concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing is developed & pursued so as to be of great fruit, great benefit. "I myself, monks, before my awakening, when I was still an unawakened bodhisatta, often dwelt in this (meditative) dwelling. While I was dwelling in this (meditative) dwelling, neither my body nor my eyes were fatigued, and the mind—through lack of clinging/sustenance—was released from effluents. "Thus, monks, if a monk should wish, ),
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('â', May neither my body nor my eyes be fatigued, and may my mind—through lack of clinging/sustenance—be released from effluents,â then he should attend closely to this very same concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing. "If a monk should wish, ),
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('â', May memories & resolves connected to the household life be abandoned within me,â he should attend closely to this very same concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing. "If a monk should wish, ),
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('â', May I be percipient of loathsomeness in the presence of what is not loathsome,â he should attend closely to this very same concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing. "If a monk should wish, ),
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('â', May I be percipient of unloathsomeness in the presence of what is loathsome⦠May I be percipient of loathesomeness in the presence of what is loathsome & what is not⦠May I be percipient of unloathsomeness in the presence of what is loathsome & what is not⦠May I—in the presence of what is loathsome & what is not—cutting myself off from both, remain equanimous, alert, & mindful,â then he should attend closely to this very same concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing. "If a monk should wish, ),
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('â', May I—quite secluded from sensuality, secluded from unskillful qualities—enter & remain in the first jhṅna: rapture & pleasure born of seclusion, accompanied by directed thought & evaluation,â then he should attend closely to this very same concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing. "If a monk should wish, ),
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('â', May I, with the stilling of directed thoughts & evaluations, enter & remain in the second jhṅna: rapture & pleasure born of concentration, unification of awareness free from directed thought & evaluation—internal assurance, then he should attend closely to this very same concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing. "If a monk should wish, ),
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('â', May I, with the fading of rapture, remain equanimous, mindful, & alert, sense pleasure with the body, and enter & remain in the third jhṅna, of which the noble ones declare, "Equanimous & mindful, he has a pleasant abiding,"â then he should attend closely to this very same concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing. "If a monk should wish, ),
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('â', May I, with the abandoning of pleasure & pain—as with the earlier disappearance of elation & distress—enter & remain in the fourth jhṅna: purity of equanimity & mindfulness, neither-pleasure-nor-pain,â then he should attend closely to this very same concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing. "If a monk should wish, ),
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('â', May I, with the complete transcending of perceptions of (physical) form, with the disappearance of perceptions of resistance, and not attending to perceptions of multiplicity, (perceiving,) ),
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('â', Infinite space,â enter & remain in the dimension of the infinitude of space,â then he should attend closely to this very same concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing. "If a monk should wish, ),
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('â', May I, with the complete transcending of the dimension of the infinitude of space, (perceiving,) ),
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('â', Infinite consciousness,â enter & remain in the dimension of the infinitude of consciousness,â then he should attend closely to this very same concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing. "If a monk should wish, ),
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('â', May I, with the complete transcending of the dimension of the infinitude of consciousness, (perceiving,) ),
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('â', There is nothing,â enter & remain in the dimension of nothingness,â then he should attend closely to this very same concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing. "If a monk should wish, ),
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('â', May I, with the complete transcending of the dimension of nothingness, enter & remain in the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception,â then he should attend closely to this very same concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing. "If a monk should wish, ),
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('â', May I, with the complete transcending of the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception, enter & remain in the cessation of perception & feeling,â then he should attend closely to this very same concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing. "When concentration through mindfulness of in-&-out breathing has been thus developed, thus pursued, one senses a feeling of pleasure. One discerns it as ),
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('â', inconstant.â One discerns it as ),
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('â', not grasped at.â One discerns it as ),
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('â', not relished.â One senses a feeling of pain. One discerns it as ),
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('â', inconstant.â One discerns it as ),
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('â', not grasped at.â One discerns it as ),
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('â', not relished.â One senses a feeling of neither pleasure nor pain. One discerns it as ),
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('â', inconstant.â One discerns it as ),
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('â', not grasped at.â One discerns it as ),
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('â', not relished.â "If sensing a feeling of pleasure, one senses it disjoined from it. If sensing a feeling of pain, one senses it disjoined from it. If sensing a feeling of neither pleasure nor pain, one senses it disjoined from it. When sensing a feeling limited to the body, one discerns, ),
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('â', I am sensing a feeling limited to the body.â When sensing a feeling limited to life, one discerns, ),
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('â', I am sensing a feeling limited to life.â One discerns, ),
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('â', With the break-up of the body, after the termination of life, all that is experienced, not being relished, will grow cold right here.â "Just as an oil lamp would burn in dependence on oil & wick and, from the termination of the oil & wick, it would go out unnourished; in the same way, when sensing a feeling limited to the body, one discerns that ),
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('â', I am sensing a feeling limited to the body.â When sensing a feeling limited to life, one discerns that ),
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('â', I am sensing a feeling limited to life.â One discerns, ),
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('â', With the break-up of the body, after the termination of life, all that is sensed, not being relished, will grow cold right here.â" See also: MNÂ 6; MNÂ 118; SNÂ 22:88; SNÂ 46:54; ANÂ 10:71 - --> - - - -