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