The Related Suttas Collection 28.2

1. With Sāriputta

Without Placing the Mind

At Sāvatthī.

Venerable Ānanda saw Venerable Sāriputta and said to him:

“Friend Sāriputta, your faculties are so very clear, and your complexion is pure and bright. What meditation were you practicing today?”

“Friend, as the placing of the mind and keeping it connected were stilled, I entered and remained in the second jhāna, which has the rapture and bliss born of immersion, with internal clarity and mind at one, without placing the mind and keeping it connected. But it didn’t occur to me: ‘I am entering the second jhāna’ or ‘I have entered the second jhāna’ or ‘I am emerging from the second jhāna’.”

“That must be because Venerable Sāriputta has long ago totally eradicated ego, possessiveness, and the underlying tendency to conceit. That’s why it didn’t occur to you: ‘I am entering the second jhāna’ or ‘I have entered the second jhāna’ or ‘I am emerging from the second jhāna’.”