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- Samyutta Nikaya XXXV.99
- Samadhi Sutta
- Concentration
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"Develop concentration, monks. A concentrated monk discerns things as they
actually are present. And what does he discern as it actually is present?
"He discerns, as it actually is present, that 'The eye is inconstant'...'Forms are
inconstant'...'Eye-consciousness is inconstant'...'Eye-contact is inconstant'...'Whatever
arises in dependence on eye-contact, experienced either as pleasure, as pain, or as
neither-pleasure-nor-pain, that too is inconstant.'
"He discerns, as it actually is present, that 'The ear is inconstant'...'The nose
is inconstant'...'The tongue is inconstant'...'The body is inconstant"...
"He discerns, as it actually is present, that 'The intellect is
inconstant'...'Ideas are inconstant'...'Intellect-consciousness is
inconstant'...'Intellect-contact is inconstant'...'Whatever arises in dependence on
intellect-contact, experienced either as pleasure, as pain, or as
neither-pleasure-nor-pain, that too is inconstant.'
"So develop concentration, monks. A concentrated monk discerns things as they
actually are present."