SN52:14 Encompassing the Mind
- © Translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi. (More copyright information)
1… "Further, friends, it is because I have developed and cultivated these four establishments of mindfulness that I understand the minds of other beings and persons, having encompassed them with my own mind.
I understand a mind with lust as a mind with lust; a mind without lust as a mind without lust;
a mind with hatred as a mind with hatred; a mind without hatred as a mind without hatred;
a mind with delusion as a mind with delusion; a mind without delusion as a mind without delusion;
a contracted mind as contracted and a distracted mind as distracted;
an exalted mind as exalted and an unexalted mind as unexalted;
a surpassable mind as surpassable and an unsurpassable mind as unsurpassable;
a concentrated mind as concentrated and an unconcentrated mind as unconcentrated;
a liberated mind as liberated and an unliberated mind as unliberated."
1"Imesañca panāhaṁ, āvuso, catunnaṁ satipaṭṭhānānaṁ bhāvitattā bahulīkatattā parasattānaṁ parapuggalānaṁ cetasā ceto paricca pajānāmi – sarāgaṁ vā cittaṁ ‘sarāgaṁ cittan’ti pajānāmi … pe … avimuttaṁ vā cittaṁ ‘avimuttaṁ cittan’ti pajānāmī"ti.
Catutthaṁ.
