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Linked Discourses 51.8 – Saṁyutta Nikāya 51.8
1. At the Cāpāla Shrine – 1. Cāpālavagga
SN 51.8 Awakened – Buddhasutta
“Bhikkhū, there are these four bases of psychic power.
“Cattārome, bhikkhave, iddhipādā.
What four?
Katame cattāro?
It’s when a bhikkhu develops the basis of psychic power that has samādhi due to enthusiasm …
Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu chandasamādhippadhānasaṅkhārasamannāgataṁ iddhipādaṁ bhāveti,
energy …
vīriyasamādhi …pe…
mental development …
cittasamādhi …pe…
inquiry, and active effort.
vīmaṁsāsamādhippadhānasaṅkhārasamannāgataṁ iddhipādaṁ bhāveti.
These are the four bases of psychic power.
Ime kho, bhikkhave, cattāro iddhipādā.
It is because he has developed and cultivated these four bases of psychic power that the Realized One is called ‘the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha’.”
Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, catunnaṁ iddhipādānaṁ bhāvitattā bahulīkatattā tathāgato ‘arahaṁ sammāsambuddho’ti vuccatī”ti.