AN 4.123 · Sutta tentang Perbedaan (1)

Kenali dunia dalam sutta ini

Dalam sutta ini, Sang Buddha mengajak kita merenungkan bagaimana pencapaian meditasi yang mendalam sekalipun bisa menjadi jalan menuju kebebasan atau justru jerat, tergantung pada kebijaksanaan dan pemahaman kita.

TOKOH & TEMPAT

Sinopsis singkat

Sang Buddha membabarkan empat jenis individu berdasarkan pencapaian jhāna pertama hingga keempat. Mereka yang menikmati dan melekat pada pencapaian tersebut akan terlahir kembali di alam brahmā yang sesuai, namun setelah umur kehidupan di sana habis, seorang duniawi akan jatuh ke alam rendah, sedangkan siswa mulia yang terpelajar mencapai parinibbāna dalam kehidupan itu juga.

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BAGIAN 2

an4.123:2.1 Furthermore, take an individual who, as the placing of the mind and keeping it connected are stilled, enters and remains in the second absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of immersion, with internal clarity and mind at one, without placing the mind and keeping it connected.

an4.123:2.2 They enjoy it and like it and find it rewarding.

an4.123:2.3 If they abide in that, are committed to it, and meditate on it often without losing it, when they die they’re reborn in the company of the gods of sublime luminosity.

an4.123:2.4 The lifespan of the gods of sublime luminosity is two eons.

an4.123:2.5 An ordinary person stays there until the lifespan of those gods is spent, then they go to hell or the animal realm or the ghost realm.

an4.123:2.6 But a disciple of the Buddha stays there until the lifespan of those gods is spent, then they’re extinguished in that very life.

an4.123:2.7 This is the difference between a learned noble disciple and an unlearned ordinary person, that is, when there is a place of rebirth.