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The "Connected Discourses on Collectedness" contains discourses dealing with the meditative skills required to perfect jhānas. Each discourse describes a meditator who is skilled in some aspects, but not in others, and holds the one skilled in all aspects to be the best.

Jhānasaṁyutta - Connected Discourses on Collectedness (jhāna)

Jhāna vagga - The Chapter on Absorption

The chapter of the Connected Discourses on Collectedness (jhāna), containing discourses 1–55.

SN 34.1 Samādhimūlakasamāpatti sutta - Attainment Based On Collectedness

The Buddha describes the four types of meditators based on their skill in collectedness and in attainment based on collectedness.

PTS 3.263

SN 34.2 Samādhimūlakaṭhiti sutta - Continuity Of Collectedness

The Buddha describes the four types of meditators based on their skill in collectedness and in the continuity of collectedness.

PTS 3.264

SN 34.3 Samādhimūlakavuṭṭhāna sutta - Emergence From Collectedness

The Buddha describes the four types of meditators based on their skill in collectedness and in the emergence from collectedness.

PTS 3.265

SN 34.4 Samādhimūlakakallitasutta - Flexibility in Collectedness

The Buddha describes the four types of meditators based on their skill in collectedness and in the flexibility of collectedness.

PTS 3.265

SN 34.5 Samādhimūlakaārammaṇa sutta - Support for Collectedness

The Buddha describes the four types of meditators based on their skill in collectedness and in the support for collectedness.

PTS 3.266

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