excerpt from MN 36
(eat some food for enough energy to do 4 jhanas)
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(with imperturbable 4th jhana samadhi, reach 3 higher knowledges)
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(samadhi that is jhāna quality after giving dhamma talk)
Abhijānāmi kho panāhaṃ, aggivessana, anekasatāya parisāya dhammaṃ desetā.
| Aggivessana, I recall teaching the Dhamma to an assembly of many hundreds, |
Apissu maṃ ekameko evaṃ maññati:
| and each person thinks |
‘mamevārabbha samaṇo gotamo dhammaṃ desetī’ti.
| that I am teaching the Dhamma especially for them. |
Na kho panetaṃ, aggivessana, evaṃ daṭṭhabbaṃ;
| But it should not be seen like this. |
yāvadeva viññāpanatthāya tathāgato paresaṃ dhammaṃ deseti.
| The Realized One teaches others only so that they can understand. |
So kho ahaṃ, aggivessana, tassāyeva kathāya pariyosāne, tasmiṃyeva purimasmiṃ samādhinimitte ajjhattameva cittaṃ saṇṭhapemi sannisādemi ekodiṃ karomi samādahāmi, yena sudaṃ niccakappaṃ viharāmī”ti.
| When that talk is finished, I still, settle, unify, and undistractify-&-lucidify my mind in samādhi internally, using the same meditation subject as a basis of undistractible-lucidity that I used before, which is my usual meditation.” |
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