AN 5.94 Living Comfortably – Phāsuvihārasutta

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AN 5.94 Living Comfortably – Phāsuvihārasutta

Numbered Discourses 5.94 – Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.94

10. With Kakudha – 10. Kakudhavagga

AN 5.94 Living Comfortably – Phāsuvihārasutta

 

1.1

Bhikkhū, there are these five ways of living comfortably.

“Pañcime, bhikkhave, phāsuvihārā.

1.2

What five?

Katame pañca?

1.3

It’s when a bhikkhu, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, enters and remains in the first absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of seclusion, while placing the mind and keeping it connected.

Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu vivicceva kāmehi vivicca akusalehi dhammehi savitakkaṁ savicāraṁ vivekajaṁ pītisukhaṁ paṭhamaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharati;

1.4

As the placing of the mind and keeping it connected are stilled, they enter and remain in the second absorption … third absorption … fourth absorption …

vitakkavicārānaṁ vūpasamā …pe… dutiyaṁ jhānaṁ … tatiyaṁ jhānaṁ … catutthaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharati;

1.5

They realize the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom in this very life. And they live having realized it with their own insight due to the ending of defilements.

āsavānaṁ khayā anāsavaṁ cetovimuttiṁ paññāvimuttiṁ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharati.

1.6

These are the five ways of living comfortably.”

Ime kho, bhikkhave, pañca phāsuvihārā”ti.

1.7

Catutthaṁ.