What is the Mental State in which all Sadness and Depression End?
Where does all mental melancholy
and depression cease without a trace remaining ?
When, with the fading away & stilling of all directed thought & any
sustained thinking,
one enters and remains in the
second jhāna absorption of assured unification of mind,
merged with pleasure and joy, born of & in this anchored & fixed
concentration: It is
right there, that all mental frustration and sadness cease without a
trace remaining...
Therefore do beings reborn at the
radiant divinity level, never feel any mental sorrow,
misery or sadness, since they are continously absorbed in this
2nd jhāna concentration...
Thus they move their body of beaming light joyously around at the
speed of a thought!!!
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book V 213-4
The Abilities section 48. Thread on The Irregular Order:
Uppatika 40
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