an9.36:3.1 It’s like an archer or their apprentice who first practices on a straw man or a clay model. At a later time they become a long-distance shooter, a marksman, who shatters large objects.
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an9.36:3.2 In the same way a noble disciple, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, enters and remains in the first absorption.
an9.36:3.3 They contemplate the phenomena there—included in form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness—as impermanent, as suffering, as diseased, as a boil, as a dart, as gloom, as an affliction, as alien, as breaking apart, as empty, as not-self.
an9.36:3.4 They turn their mind away from those things,
an9.36:3.5 and apply it to freedom from death:
an9.36:3.6 ‘This is peaceful; this is sublime—that is, the stilling of all activities, the letting go of all attachments, the ending of craving, fading away, cessation, extinguishment.’
an9.36:3.7 Abiding in that they attain the ending of defilements.
an9.36:3.8 If they don’t attain the ending of defilements, with the ending of the five lower fetters they’re reborn spontaneously, because of their passion and love for that meditation. They are extinguished there, and are not liable to return from that world.
an9.36:3.9 ‘The first absorption is a basis for ending the defilements.’
an9.36:3.10 That’s what I said, and this is why I said it.