《Toh 158 (Kangyur)》
CBETA 84K-toh158
Homage to all the buddhas and bodhisattvas! Thus did I hear at one time. The Bhagavān was staying at Kūṭāgāraśālā in the great forest grove near Vaiśālī together with a great assembly of twelve thousand monks and a great many bodhisattva mahāsattvas. In the middle of the night, the Bhagavān sat awake in a cross-legged position, settled in mindfulness. He entered the first meditative concentration, wherein joy and happiness arise from engaging in thought and scrutiny while in seclusion. Here the Tibetan for the first concentration is slightly different from the classic formulation as found in the Mahāvyutpatti and elsewhere. The present text reads rtog pa dang bcas pa/ dpyod pa dang bcas pa’i ting nge ’dzin las skyes pa “[joy] arising from meditative absorption with thought and scrutiny,” whereas the Mahāvyutpatti reads rtog pa dang bcas pa dpyad pa dang bcas pa dben pa las skyes pa “arising from thought and scrutiny while in seclusion.” Note that here “in seclusion” does not refer to seclusion in the sense of being in a secluded place while practicing, but rather to being mentally secluded, as it were, from the objects of the senses. In the Mahāvyutpatti it is only the second conc…
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