འཕགས་པ་ཚངས་པས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1

1

Homage to all the buddhas and bodhisattvas!

Thus did I hear at one time. The Bhagavān was staying at Kūṭāgāraśālā in the great forest grove near Vaiśālī together with a great assembly of twelve thousand monks and a great many bodhisattva mahāsattvas.

In the middle of the night, the Bhagavān sat awake in a cross-legged position, settled in mindfulness. He entered the first meditative concentration, wherein joy and happiness arise from engaging in thought and scrutiny while in seclusion.⁶ Emerging from that, the Bhagavān entered the second meditative concentration, wherein joy and happiness arise from meditative absorption that involves no thought or scrutiny.