From AN 9.37 :
> Ven. Ānanda said, “It’s amazing, friends, it’s astounding, how the
> Blessed One who knows & sees, the worthy one, rightly self-awakened,
> has attained & awakened to an opening [in a confining place]1 for the
> purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrow & lamentation,
> for the disappearance of pain & distress, for the attainment of the
> right method, & for the realization of unbinding, where the eye will
> be, and those forms, and yet one will not be sensitive to that
> dimension; where the ear will be, and those sounds… where the nose
> will be, and those aromas… where the tongue will be, and those
> flavors… where the body will be, and those tactile sensations, and yet
> **one will not be sensitive to that dimension.**”
Why does the passage omit the sixth-sense sphere, intellect-idea? Usually the use of ellipsis for repetitive text, but not in this discourse. Does this discourse describe intra-jhana or a state after jhana?
As an adjunct, MN43 says this about the state after *cessation of perception and feeling*:
> Friend, what is the difference between a dead body and a bhikkhu
> attained to the cessation of perceptions and feelings? Friend, in a
> dead body the bodily determination (in and out breath) has ceased and
> is appeased The verbal determination (thinking and pondering) has
> ceased and is appeased The mental determination (feeling and
> perception) has ceased and is appeased. Vitality is exhausted. The
> heat has extinguished, and the mental faculties have broken up.
>
> Of the bhikkhu attained to the cessation of perceptions and feelings,
> the bodily determintion has ceased and is appeased. The verbal
> determination has ceased and is appeased. The mental determination has
> ceased is appeased. Vitality is not exhausted. The heat is not
> extinguished. **The mental faculties are very clear.** Friend, this is
> the difference between a dead body and of one attained to the
> cessation of perceptions and feelings.
If AN 9:37 is not describing jhana, does MN.43 describe a state different than AN 9.37?
Asked by āḷasu bhikhārī
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Jun 20, 2023, 10:46 PM
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