Meditation (1st) (SN45.11)

Linked Discourses 45.11

2. Meditation

Meditation (1st)

At Sāvatthī.

“Mendicants, I wish to go on retreat for a fortnight.¹

No-one should approach me, except the one who brings my almsfood.”

“Yes, sir,” replied those mendicants. And no-one approached him, except the one who brought the almsfood.

Then after a fortnight had passed, the Buddha came out of retreat and addressed the mendicants:

“Mendicants, I’ve been practicing part of the meditation I practiced when I was first awakened.²

I understand that

there’s feeling conditioned by wrong view³

and feeling conditioned by right view. …⁴

There’s feeling conditioned by wrong immersion,⁵

and feeling conditioned by right immersion.

There’s feeling conditioned by desire.⁶

There’s feeling conditioned by thought.⁷

There’s feeling conditioned by perception.⁸

As long as desire, thought, and perception are not stilled, there is feeling conditioned by that.⁹

When desire, thought, and perception are stilled, there is feeling conditioned by that.¹⁰

There is effort to attain the unattained. When that state has been attained, there is also feeling conditioned by that.”¹¹