Collections of Numbered Discourses
Collections of 'numbered' or 'numerical' discourses and other related texts.
At Udāyī’s request, Ānanda explains an obscure verse spoken (in SN 2.7) by a deity. The nine progressive meditations are the escape from confinement.
The Buddha speaks of a “direct witness’, that is, someone who personally has thorough and proficient experience of the different meditation states.
One liberated by wisdom first enters the meditation states, then understands them.
One freed both ways is both proficient in and understands the meditation states.
The teaching apparent in the present life is experienced provisionally in deep meditation, and completely when the defilements end.
Extinguishment apparent in the present life is experienced provisionally in deep meditation, and completely when the defilements end.
