The Buddha teaches a repeated formula on four meditators distinguished by skill in immersion and six on gladdening and support, etc., declaring the one skilled in both to be foremost, applied across this grouped discourse.
Sāvatthinidānaṁ …
“samādhismiṁ kallitakusalo hoti, na samādhismiṁ ārammaṇakusalo … samādhismiṁ ārammaṇakusalo hoti, na samādhismiṁ kallitakusalo … neva samādhismiṁ kallitakusalo hoti, na ca samādhismiṁ ārammaṇakusalo … samādhismiṁ kallitakusalo ca hoti, samādhismiṁ ārammaṇakusalo ca. Tatra, bhikkhave, yvāyaṁ jhāyī …pe… uttamo ca pavaro cā”ti.
Pañcatiṁsatimaṁ.
(Purimamūlakāni viya yāva cattālīsamā kallitamūlakasappāyakārīsuttā cha suttāni pūretabbāni.)
(Kallitamūlakaṁ.)
Reference Translation by Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0).
Sāvatthinidānaṁ …
At Sāvatthī.
“samādhismiṁ kallitakusalo hoti, na samādhismiṁ ārammaṇakusalo …
“One meditator is skilled in positivity for immersion but not in the supports for immersion. …”
samādhismiṁ ārammaṇakusalo hoti, na samādhismiṁ kallitakusalo …
neva samādhismiṁ kallitakusalo hoti, na ca samādhismiṁ ārammaṇakusalo …
samādhismiṁ kallitakusalo ca hoti, samādhismiṁ ārammaṇakusalo ca.
Tatra, bhikkhave, yvāyaṁ jhāyī …pe…
uttamo ca pavaro cā”ti.
Pañcatiṁsatimaṁ.
(Purimamūlakāni viya yāva cattālīsamā kallitamūlakasappāyakārīsuttā cha suttāni pūretabbāni.)
(These six discourses should be told in full as the previous set.)
(Kallitamūlakaṁ.)
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