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MN 66 upekkha-sukha CST4 pāli error, fixed.


original corrupted pali CST 4

MN 2, 2. bhikkhuvaggo, 6. laṭukikopamasuttaṃ (MN 66.1), para. 13 ⇒

idampi kho ahaṃ, udāyi, iñjitasmiṃ vadāmi.
This belongs to what is not imperturbable, I say.
Kiñca tattha iñjitasmiṃ?
And what there belongs to what is not imperturbable?
Yadeva tattha pītisukhaṃ aniruddhaṃ hoti idaṃ tattha iñjitasmiṃ.
Whatever rapture and bliss has not ceased there is what belongs to what is not imperturbable.
Idhudāyi, bhikkhu pītiyā ca virāgā … pe … tatiyaṃ jhānaṃ upasampajja viharati;
Take a mendicant who, with the fading away of rapture, enters and remains in the third absorption.
idampi kho ahaṃ, udāyi, iñjitasmiṃ vadāmi.
This pertains to what is not imperturbable.
Kiñca tattha iñjitasmiṃ?
And what there pertains to what is not imperturbable?
Yadeva tattha upekkhāsukhaṃ aniruddhaṃ hoti idaṃ tattha iñjitasmiṃ.
Whatever equanimous bliss has not ceased there is what pertains to what is not imperturbable.
Idhudāyi, bhikkhu sukhassa ca pahānā … pe … catutthaṃ jhānaṃ upasampajja viharati;
Take a mendicant who, giving up pleasure and pain, enters and remains in the fourth absorption.


That's obvious nonsense contradicting basic EBT. upekkha (upa + ikkhati) means, equanimous-observation. It's a vipassana jhana factor that first becomes prominent in 3rd jhana, continues into 4th jhana, is present and continues through first three arupa samadhi attainments and all 7 perception/sañña meditation attainments. (see MN 111).

It contradicts the basic STED 3rd jhana formula, where upekkha and sukha are INDEPENDENT factors, not entwined codependently as "upekkha-sukha" equanimous-pleasure.

If we were to qualify what the sukha is, it's not upekkha pleasure, it's bodily pleasure, as in:

(STED 3rd Jhāna)

🚫😁 pītiyā ca virāgā
🚫😁(with) Rapture ** fading,
👁 upekkhako ca viharati
👁 Equanimously-observing ** (he) dwells,
(S&S🐘💭) sato ca sam-pajāno,
(S&S🐘💭) (he is a) Rememberer, (a) lucid-discerner,
🙂🚶 sukhañca kāyena paṭi-saṃ-vedeti,
🙂🚶 pleasure with-the-body (he) experiences,
yaṃ taṃ ariyā ācikkhanti —
that those Noble-Ones declare -
‘upekkhako satimā sukha-vihārī’ti
“(He is an) equanimous-observer (and a) Rememberer, (he has) pleasurable-abiding.”
🌖 tatiyaṃ jhānaṃ upasampajja viharati.
🌖 third Jhāna (he) enters, dwells.


MN 66 fixed (on next update to lucid24.org)



idampi kho ahaṃ, udāyi, iñjitasmiṃ vadāmi.
This belongs to what is not imperturbable, I say.
Kiñca tattha iñjitasmiṃ?
And what there belongs to what is not imperturbable?
Yadeva tattha pītisukhaṃ aniruddhaṃ hoti idaṃ tattha iñjitasmiṃ.
Whatever rapture and bliss has not ceased there is what belongs to what is not imperturbable.
Idhudāyi, bhikkhu pītiyā ca virāgā … pe … tatiyaṃ jhānaṃ upasampajja viharati;
Take a mendicant who, with the fading away of rapture, enters and remains in the third absorption.
idampi kho ahaṃ, udāyi, iñjitasmiṃ vadāmi.
This pertains to what is not imperturbable.
Kiñca tattha iñjitasmiṃ?
And what there pertains to what is not imperturbable?
Yadeva tattha sukhaṃ aniruddhaṃ hoti idaṃ tattha iñjitasmiṃ.
Whatever  pleasure has not ceased there is what pertains to what is not imperturbable.
Idhudāyi, bhikkhu sukhassa ca pahānā … pe … catutthaṃ jhānaṃ upasampajja viharati;
Take a mendicant who, giving up pleasure and pain, enters and remains in the fourth absorption.


3 down, 3 to go.
https://notesonthedhamma.blogspot.com/2019/08/what-is-upekkha-sukha-every-sutta-that.html





This is the sound of late Abhidhamma submitting to EBT

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