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Saį¹yutta NikÄya 43.3 Linked Discourses 43.3
1. Paį¹hamavagga Chapter One
SavitakkasavicÄrasutta Placing the Mind and Keeping it Connected
āKatamo ca, bhikkhave, asaį¹
khatagÄmimaggo? āAnd what is the path that leads to the unconditioned?
SavitakkasavicÄro samÄdhi, avitakkavicÄramatto samÄdhi, avitakkaavicÄro samÄdhiāayaį¹ vuccati, bhikkhave, asaį¹
khatagÄmimaggo ā¦peā¦. Immersion with placing the mind and keeping it connected. Immersion without placing the mind, merely keeping it connected. Immersion without placing the mind or keeping it connected. ā¦ā This threefold presentation of the process of absorption focuses on vitakka (āplacing the mindā) and vicÄra (ākeeping it connectedā), looking closely at how they cease (see also DN 33:1.10.121, DN 34:1.4.7, MN 128:31.4, and AN 8.63:3.1). The standard jhÄna formula focuses more on the refinement of feelings, from which perspective the first two stages of immersion here fall under the ārapture and bliss born of seclusionā, while only the third qualifies as ārapture and bliss born of immersionā. Thus Analayo describes the two descriptions as ācomplementary perspectives on the same process of deepening concentrationā (Comparative Study, vol. ii, pg. 739, note 263).
Tatiyaį¹.