Saṁyutta Nikāya — Discursos Conectados — 34.55 — Persistence and What’s Conducive

1At Sāvatthī.

2“Mendicants, there are these four meditators. What four?

3One meditator is skilled in practicing persistently for immersion but not in doing what’s conducive to it.

4One meditator is skilled in doing what’s conducive to immersion but not in practicing persistently for it.

5One meditator is skilled neither in practicing persistently for immersion nor in doing what’s conducive to it.

6One meditator is skilled both in practicing persistently for immersion and in doing what’s conducive to it.

7Of these, the meditator skilled both in practicing persistently for immersion and in doing what’s conducive to it is the foremost, best, leading, highest, and finest of the four.

8From a cow comes milk, from milk comes curds, from curds come butter, from butter comes ghee, and from ghee comes cream of ghee. And the cream of ghee is said to be the best of these.

9In the same way, the meditator skilled both in practicing persistently for immersion and in doing what’s conducive to it is the foremost, best, leading, highest, and finest of the four.”

10That is what the Buddha said. Satisfied, the mendicants approved what the Buddha said.

12(All should be told in full as per the fifty-fifth discourse.)

16The Linked Discourses on Absorption are complete.

19The Book of the Aggregates is finished.