sn40.1:2.1 “Just now, reverends, as I was in private retreat this thought came to mind:
sn40.1:2.2 ‘They speak of this thing called the “first absorption”.
sn40.1:2.3 What is the first absorption?’
sn40.1:2.4 It occurred to me:
sn40.1:2.5 ‘It’s when a mendicant, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, enters and remains in the first absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of seclusion, while placing the mind and keeping it connected.
sn40.1:2.6 This is called the first absorption.’
sn40.1:2.7 And so … I was entering and remaining in the first absorption.
sn40.1:2.8 While I was in that meditation, perception and focus accompanied by sensual pleasures beset me.