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PathavÄ«kasiṇaniddeso The Earth Kasiṇa

4. PathavÄ«kasiṇaniddeso [The Earth Kasiṇa (PathavÄ«-kasiṇa-niddesa)]

Ananurūpavihāro [The Eighteen Faults of a Monastery]

Anurūpavihāro [The Five Factors of the Resting Place]

Khuddakapalibodhā [The Lesser Impediments]

Sattasappāyā [The Seven Suitable Things]

Dasavidhaappanākosallaṃ [The Ten Kinds of Skill in Absorption]

Kathaṃ yasmiṃ samaye cittaṃ niggahetabbaṃ, tasmiṃ samaye cittaṃ niggaṇhāti? How does he restrain the mind on an occasion when it should be restrained?

Nimittābhimukhapaṭipādanaṃ [The Five Similes]

69. Paṭhamajjhānakathā [Absorption in the Cognitive Series]

Tattha vivicceva kāmehīti kāmehi viviccitvā Herein, quite secluded from sense desires means having secluded himself from,

PÄ«tisukhanti ettha pīṇayatÄ«ti pÄ«ti. Happiness and bliss: it refreshes (pÄ«nayati), thus it is happiness (pÄ«ti).

Yaṃ pana vuttaṃ ā€˜ā€˜paƱcaį¹…gavippahÄ«naṃ paƱcaį¹…gasamannāgata’’nti, Now, it was also said above which abandons five factors, possesses five factors (§79; cf. M I 294).

Evamadhigate pana etasmiṃ tena yoginā vālavedhinā viya, When it has been attained in this way, the mode of its attainment must be discerned by the meditator as if he were a hair-splitter or

79. Dutiyajjhānakathā [The Second Jhāna]

87. Catutthajjhānakathā [The Fourth Jhāna]

90. PaƱcakajjhānakathā [The Fivefold Reckoning of Jhāna]