mn45:7.1 And what is the way of taking up practices that is pleasant now and results in future pleasure?
mn45:7.2 It’s when someone is not ordinarily full of acute greed, hate, and delusion. They rarely feel the pain and sadness that greed, hate, and delusion bring.
mn45:7.5 Quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, they enter and remain in the first absorption …
mn45:7.6 second absorption …
mn45:7.7 third absorption …
mn45:7.8 fourth absorption.
mn45:7.9 When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.
mn45:7.10 This is called the way of taking up practices that is pleasant now and results in future pleasure.
mn45:7.11 These are the four ways of taking up practices.”
mn45:7.12 That is what the Buddha said.
mn45:7.13 Satisfied, the mendicants approved what the Buddha said.