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A
Bhikkhus.
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Sariputta
is wise, has great, wide, joyous, quick, keen, penetrative wisdom. During
half a month, he had insight into states one by one as they occurred.
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Here,
bhikkhus, quite secluded from sensual pleasures and unwholesome states,
Sariputta entered upon and abided in the first
jhana
, which is accompanied
by applied and sustained thought, with rapture and pleasure born of seclusion.
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And
the states in the first, second, third, fourth
jhanas
, and the bases
of infinite space, consciousness and nothingness were defined by him one
by one as they occurred; known to him they arose, were present, disappeared.
He understood thus:
>
So
indeed, these states, not having been, come into being; having been, they
vanish.
=
Regarding them, he abided unattracted, unrepelled, independent, detached,
free, dissociated, with a mind rid of barriers. He understood:
>
There
is an escape beyond,
=
and with the cultivation of that, he confirmed that there is.
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Again,
bhikkhus, with the stilling of applied and sustained thought, Sariputta
entered and abided in the second
jhana
, which has self-confidence
and singleness of mind without applied and sustained thought, with rapture
and pleasure born of concentration.
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He
understood thus:...and with the cultivation of that, he confirmed that
there is.
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With
the fading away as well of rapture, Sariputta abided in equanimity, and
mindful and fully aware, still feeling pleasure with the body, he entered
upon and abided in the third
jhana
, on account of which noble ones
announce:
>
He
has a pleasant abiding who has equanimity and is mindful.
=
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With
the abandoning of pleasure and pain, and with the previous disappearance
of joy and grief, Sariputta entered upon and abided in the fourth
jhana
,
which has neither-pain-nor-pleasure and purity of mindfulness due to equanimity.
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Again,
bhikkhus, with the complete surmounting of perceptions of form, with the
disappearance of perceptions of sensory impact, with non-attention to
perceptions
of diversity, aware that
>
space
is infinite,
=
Sariputta entered upon and abided in the base of infinite space.
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By
completely surmounting the bases of infinite space, consciousness, nothingness
and neither-perception-nor-non-perception, aware that
>
consciousness
is infinite, and that
>
there
is nothing,
=
Sariputta entered upon and abided in the bases of infinite consciousness,
nothingness and the cessation of perception and feeling.
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He
emerged mindful from that attainment. Having done so, he contemplated the
past states, which had ceased and changed, thus:
>
So
indeed, these states, not having been, come into being; having been, they
vanish.
=
Regarding those states, he abided unattracted, unrepelled, independent,
detached, free, dissociated, with a mind rid of barriers.
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And
his taints were destroyed by his seeing with wisdom.
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Having
done so, he recalled the past states, which had ceased and changed, thus:
>
So
indeed, these states, not having been, come into being; having been, they
vanish.
=
He understood:
>
There
is no escape beyond,
=
and with the cultivation of that, he confirmed that there is not.
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A
Bhikkhus,
rightly speaking, were it to be said of anyone:
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He
has attained mastery and perfection in noble virtue, concentration, wisdom,and
deliverance, he is the son of the Blessed One, born of his breast and mouth,
born of, created by, an heir in the Dhamma, not in material things
=
it is of Sariputta indeed that rightly speaking this should be said.
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The
matchless Wheel of the Dhamma set rolling by the Tathagata is kept rolling
by Sariputta.
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FULL
SUTTA
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