sn22.88:3.1 “Sir, I’m not keeping well, I’m not getting by. My pain is terrible and growing, not fading; its growing is evident, not its fading.”
sn22.88:3.2 “I hope you don’t have any remorse or regret?”
sn22.88:3.3 “Indeed, sir, I have no little remorse and regret.”
sn22.88:3.4 “I hope you have no reason to blame yourself when it comes to ethical conduct?”
sn22.88:3.5 “No sir, I have no reason to blame myself when it comes to ethical conduct.”
sn22.88:3.6 “In that case, Assaji, why do you have remorse and regret?”
sn22.88:3.7 “Sir, before my time of illness I meditated having completely stilled the physical process. But now I can’t get immersion.
sn22.88:3.8 Since I can’t get immersion, I think:
sn22.88:3.9 ‘May I not decline!’”
sn22.88:3.10 “There are, Assaji, ascetics and brahmins for whom samādhi is the essence, equating immersion with the ascetic life. They think:
sn22.88:3.11 ‘May we not decline!’