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Thinking & examining cease, [yielding to] inward serenity having the
purpose of onepointedness; no thinking, no examining, born-of-concentration
- rapture - happiness second jhana enters & dwells.
Rapture fading away, equanimity [he] remains in, mindful with clear
awareness, pleasure physically sensitive [to], of which Noble Ones declare
"Equanimous & mindful, he has a pleasurable abiding," third jhana enters &
dwells.
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And what, monks, is right concentration?
There is the case where a monk -- quite secluded from sensuality, secluded
from unskillful (mental) qualities -- enters & remains in the first jhana: rapture
& happiness born of seclusion, accompanied by thinking & examining.
With the stilling of thinking & examining, he enters & remains in the second
jhana: rapture & happiness born of concentration, unification of awareness
free from thinking & examining -- internal tranquility.
With the fading of rapture, he remains in equanimity, mindful & clearly aware,
and physically sensitive of pleasure. He enters & remains in the third jhana,
of which the Noble Ones declare, 'Equanimous & mindful, he has a
pleasurable abiding.'
With the abandoning of pleasure & pain -- as with the earlier disappearance
of elation & distress -- he enters & remains in the fourth jhana: purity of
equanimity & mindfulness, neither pleasure nor pain.
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