sn46.54:14.1 And how is the heart’s release by rejoicing developed? What is its destination, apex, fruit, and end?
sn46.54:14.2 It’s when a mendicant develops the heart’s release by rejoicing together with the awakening factors of mindfulness, investigation of principles, energy, rapture, tranquility, immersion,
sn46.54:14.3 and equanimity, which rely on seclusion, fading away, and cessation, and ripen as letting go.
sn46.54:14.4 If they wish: ‘May I meditate perceiving the repulsive in the unrepulsive,’ that’s what they do. …
sn46.54:14.5 If they wish: ‘May I meditate staying equanimous, mindful and aware, shunning both the repulsive and the unrepulsive,’ that’s what they do.
sn46.54:14.6 Or else, going totally beyond the dimension of infinite space, aware that ‘consciousness is infinite’, they enter and remain in the dimension of infinite consciousness.
sn46.54:14.7 The apex of the heart’s release by rejoicing is the dimension of infinite consciousness, I say, for a wise mendicant here who has not penetrated to a higher freedom.