Dighanikaya 9.414_3

9.414_3

Pitugharamajjhena kira gantvā pacchābhāge puttassa gharaṃ hoti, tato paṇītaṃ bhojanaṃ ādāya āsanasālaṃ āgataṃ daharaṃ thero – ‘‘manāpo piṇḍapāto kuto ābhato’’ti pucchi. So ‘‘asukassa gharato’’ti laddhagharameva ācikkhi. Yena panassa pitugharamajjhena gatopi āgatopi tattha ābhogopi natthi. Tattha āsanasālā viya ākiñcaññāyatanasamāpatti daṭṭhabbā, pitugehaṃ viya nevasaññānāsaññāyatanasamāpatti, puttagehaṃ viya nirodhasamāpatti, āsanasālāya ṭhatvā pitugharaṃ amanasikaritvā puttagharācikkhaṇaṃ viya ākiñcaññāyatanato vuṭṭhāya nevasaññānāsaññāyatanaṃ samāpajjitvā ‘‘ekaṃ dve cittavāre ṭhassāmī’’ti pitugharaṃ amanasikaritvāva uparinirodhasamāpattatthāya manasikāro, evamesa cetentova na ceteti, abhisaṅkharontova nābhisaṅkharoti. Tā ceva saññāti tā jhānasaññā nirujjhanti. Aññā cāti aññā ca oḷārikā bhavaṅgasaññā nuppajjanti. So nirodhaṃ phusatīti so evaṃ paṭipanno bhikkhu saññāvedayitanirodhaṃ phusati vindati paṭilabhati.

It is said that after going through the middle of the father's house, the son's house is situated at the back; an elder asked a novice who had brought choice food from there to the dining hall, 'Where was this pleasing almsfood brought from?' He declared only the house where it was received: 'From so-and-so's house.' But even though he went and returned through the middle of the father's house, he gave no attention to it. Herein, the attainment of the base of nothingness is to be regarded as like the dining hall; the attainment of the base of neither-perception-nor-non-perception as like the father's house; the attainment of cessation as like the son's house; and just as one standing in the dining hall, not paying attention to the father's house, points out the son's house, so having emerged from the base of nothingness and attained the base of neither-perception-nor-non-perception, without paying attention to the father's house by thinking 'I shall stand for one or two thought-moments', there is attention solely for the sake of the higher attainment of cessation—thus, while indeed thinking he does not think, and while generating volition he does not generate volition. 'Those perceptions': those perceptions of absorption cease. 'And others': and other gross life-continuum perceptions do not arise. 'He touches cessation' means that a bhikkhu who has practiced in this way touches, experiences, obtains the cessation of perception and feeling.