sn41.9:2.1 “But householder, how long have you been a lay follower?”
BAGIAN 2
sn41.9:2.2 “It’s been thirty years, sir.”
sn41.9:2.3 “But householder, in these thirty years have you achieved any superhuman distinction in knowledge and vision worthy of the noble ones, a comfortable meditation?”
sn41.9:2.4 “How, sir, could I not?
sn41.9:2.5 For whenever I want, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, I enter and remain in the first absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of seclusion, while placing the mind and keeping it connected.
sn41.9:2.6 And whenever I want, as the placing of the mind and keeping it connected are stilled … I enter and remain in the second absorption.
sn41.9:2.7 And whenever I want, with the fading away of rapture … I enter and remain in the third absorption.
sn41.9:2.8 And whenever I want, giving up pleasure and pain … I enter and remain in the fourth absorption.
sn41.9:2.9 If I pass away before the Buddha, it would be no wonder if the Buddha declares of me:
sn41.9:2.10 ‘The householder Citta is bound by no fetter that might return him to this world.’”
sn41.9:2.11 When this was said, Kassapa said to Citta,
sn41.9:2.12 “Oh lord, how incredible, how amazing,
sn41.9:2.13 how well explained the teaching is. For a white-clothed layperson can achieve such a superhuman distinction in knowledge and vision worthy of the noble ones, a comfortable meditation.
sn41.9:2.14 Householder, may I receive the going forth, the ordination in this teaching and training?”