Monday, June 13, 2022

🔗📝 collection of notes on MN 137

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This new translation (major update, 2022 june)  will make explicit some things about four jhānas and 8 vimokkha that you're not going to get from anyone else's English translation.

● MN 137 - 🔗🔊 22m, Saḷ-āyatana-vibhaṅga: 6-sense-base-analysis:
            MN 1371.1 – (6 internal bases)
            MN 1371.2 – (6 external bases)
            MN 1371.3 – (6 classes of consciousness)
            MN 1371.4 – (6 classes of contact)
        MN 1372 – (18 mental vicāra/explorations = 6 x [so-manassa + do-manassa + upekkha])
        MN 1373 – (36 positions of sentient beings = 18 x [householder + renunciate])
            MN 1373.1 – (6 kinds of householder mental-joy)
            MN 1373.2 – (6 kinds of renunciate mental-joy = pīti of 7sb and 4 jhānas)
            MN 1373.3 – (6 kinds of householder mental-distress: This is what 4th jhāna formula references)
            MN 1373.4 – (6 kinds of renunciate mental-distress)
            MN 1373.5 – (6 kinds of householder equanimous-observation)
            MN 1373.6 – (6 kinds of renunciate equanimous-observation: is what’s in 3rd and 4th jhāna, mind connected to 5 sense fields!)
        MN 1374 – (rely on something superior to give up something inferior)
            MN 1374.1 – (rely on renunciate mental-joy to give up householder mental-joy)
            MN 1374.2 – (rely on renunciate mental-distress to give up householder mental-distress)
            MN 1374.3 – (rely on renunciate equanimous-observation to give up householder equanimous-observation)
            MN 1374.4 – (rely on renunciate mental-joy to give up renunciate mental-distress: use first two jhānas to give up renunciate mental-distress)
            MN 1374.5 – (rely on renunciate equanimous-observation to give up renunciate mental-joy: use 4th and 3rd jhāna to give up 1st and 2nd jhāna)
        MN 1375 – (two kinds of upekkha equanimous-observation)
            MN 1375.1 - (upekkha based on diversity/nanatta are 3rd and 4th jhāna)
            MN 1375.2 - (upekkha based on unity/ekatta are 4 a-rūpa attainments)
            MN 1374.6 – (rely on upekkha of formless to give up upekkha of fourth jhāna)
            MN 1374.7 – (rely on non-identification to give up upekkha of formless)
        MN 1377 - (The teacher -buddha- uses 3 types of sati, to illustrate upekkha reaction)
        MN 1378 - (8 vimokkha + simile of horse and ox trainer in 4 directions)


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MN 137 New Translation. Many interesting details about four jhānas, even though the word 'jhāna' never appears!


Understanding how MN 137 upekkha works, and how somanassa and domanassa in the four jhanas works, has implications on how we understand SN 48.40:

SN 48.40 de-corrupting and reconstructing


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