When one enters and remains in cessation of perception and feeling during death where in 31 planes of existence will he go to?
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> “And further, with the complete transcending of the dimension of the
> infinitude of consciousness, (perceiving,) ‘There is nothing,’
> Sāriputta entered & remained in the **dimension of nothingness**.
> Whatever qualities there are in the dimension of nothingness—the
> perception of the dimension of nothingness, singleness of mind,
> contact, feeling, perception, intention, consciousness, desire,
> decision, persistence, mindfulness, equanimity, & attention—he
> ferreted them out one after another. Known to him they arose, known to
> him they became established, known to him they subsided. He discerned,
> ‘So this is how these qualities, not having been, come into play.
> Having been, they vanish.’ He remained unattracted & unrepelled with
> regard to those qualities, independent, detached, released,
> dissociated, with an awareness rid of barriers. He discerned that
> ‘**There is a further escape**,’ and pursuing it, he confirmed that
> ‘There is.’
>
> “And further, with the complete transcending of the dimension of
> nothingness, Sāriputta entered & remained in the **dimension of
> neither perception nor non-perception**. He emerged mindfully from
> that attainment. On emerging mindfully from that attainment, he
> regarded the past qualities that had ceased & changed: ‘So this is how
> these qualities, not having been, come into play. Having been, they
> vanish.’ He remained unattracted & unrepelled with regard to those
> qualities, independent, detached, released, dissociated, with an
> awareness rid of barriers. He discerned that ‘**There is a further
> escape**,’ and pursuing it, he confirmed that ‘There is.’
>
> “And further, with the complete transcending of the dimension of
> neither perception nor non-perception, Sāriputta entered & remained in
> the **cessation of perception & feeling**. And when he saw with
> discernment, his effluents were totally ended. He emerged mindfully
> from that attainment. On emerging mindfully from that attainment, he
> regarded the past qualities that had ceased & changed: ‘So this is how
> these qualities, not having been, come into play. Having been, they
> vanish.’ He remained unattracted & unrepelled with regard to those
> qualities, independent, detached, released, dissociated, with an
> awareness rid of barriers. He discerned that ‘**There is no further
> escape**,’ and pursuing it, he confirmed that ‘There isn’t.’
>
>
>
> [https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN111.html]
>
>
> : https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN111.html
> “And I have also taught the step-by-step cessation of fabrications.
> When one has attained the first jhāna, speech has ceased. When one has
> attained the second jhāna, directed thought & evaluation have ceased.
> When one has attained the third jhāna, rapture has ceased. When one
> has attained the fourth jhāna, in-and-out breathing has ceased. When
> one has attained the dimension of the infinitude of space, the
> perception of forms has ceased. When one has attained the dimension of
> the infinitude of consciousness, the perception of the dimension of
> the infinitude of space has ceased. When one has attained the
> dimension of nothingness, the perception of the dimension of the
> infinitude of consciousness has ceased. When one has attained the
> dimension of neither-perception nor non-perception, the perception of
> the dimension of nothingness has ceased. When one has attained the
> **cessation of perception & feeling**, perception & feeling have ceased. When a monk’s effluents have ended, passion has ceased,
aversion has ceased, delusion has ceased.
>
> [https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN36_11.html]
>
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> : https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN36_11.html
> “And this, monks, is the noble truth of the cessation of stress: the
> remainderless fading & cessation, renunciation, relinquishment,
> release, & **letting go of that very craving.**
>
> [https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN56_11.html]
> Now from the remainderless fading & cessation of that very ignorance
> comes the cessation of fabrications. From the cessation of
> fabrications comes the cessation of consciousness. From the cessation
> of consciousness comes the cessation of name-&-form. From the
> cessation of name-&-form comes the cessation of the six sense media.
> From the cessation of the six sense media comes the cessation of
> contact. From the cessation of contact comes the **cessation of
> feeling**. From the cessation of feeling comes the **cessation of
> craving**. From the cessation of craving comes the cessation of
> clinging/sustenance. From the cessation of clinging/sustenance comes
> the cessation of becoming. From the cessation of becoming comes the
> cessation of birth. From the cessation of birth, then aging-&-death,
> sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair all cease. Such is the
> cessation of this entire mass of stress & suffering.”
>
> [https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN12_15.html]
> Then there is the case where a monk, with the complete transcending of
> the dimension of the infinitude of consciousness, (perceiving,) ‘There
> is nothing,’ enters & remains in the dimension of nothingness. That is
> its transcending. But that, too, I tell you, isn’t enough. Abandon it,
> I tell you. Transcend it, I tell you. And what is its transcending?
>
> “Then there is the case where a monk, with the complete transcending
> of the dimension of nothingness, enters & remains in the **dimension
> of neither perception nor non-perception**. That is its transcending.
> But that, too, I tell you, isn’t enough. **Abandon it**, I tell you.
> Transcend it, I tell you. And what is its transcending?
>
> “There is the case where a monk, with the complete transcending of the
> **dimension of neither perception nor non-perception**, enters & remains in the **cessation of perception & feeling**. That is its
> transcending.
>
> “Thus, Udāyin, I speak even of the **abandoning** of the dimension of
> neither perception nor non-perception. Do you see any fetter, large or
> small, of whose abandoning I don’t speak?”
>
> “No, lord.”
>
> That is what the Blessed One said. Gratified, Ven. Udāyin delighted in
> the Blessed One’s words.
>
> [https://www.dharmatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN66.html]
>
>
> : https://www.dharmatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN66.html
> Then there is the case where a monk, with the complete transcending of
> the dimension of the infinitude of consciousness, (perceiving,) ‘There
> is nothing,’ enters & remains in the **dimension of nothingness**. If,
> as he remains there, he is beset with attention to perceptions dealing
> with the dimension of the infinitude of consciousness, **that is an
> affliction for him**.…
>
> “Then there is the case where a monk, with the complete transcending
> of the dimension of nothingness, enters & remains in the **dimension
> of neither perception nor non-perception**. If, as he remains there,
> he is beset with attention to perceptions dealing with the dimension
> of nothingness, **that is an affliction for him**. Now, the Blessed
> One has said that whatever is an affliction is stress. So by this line
> of reasoning it may be known how unbinding is pleasant.
>
> “Then there is the case where a monk, with the complete transcending
> of the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception, enters &
> remains in the **cessation of perception & feeling**. And as he sees
> (that) with discernment, effluents are completely ended. So by this
> line of reasoning it may be known how unbinding is pleasant.”
>
> [https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN/AN9_34.html]
>
>
> : https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN/AN9_34.html
> “Dependent on eye & forms, eye-consciousness arises. The meeting of
> the three is contact. With contact as a requisite condition, there is
> **feeling**. What one feels, one **perceives** [labels in the mind].
>
> [https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN18.html]
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> : https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN18.html
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