Path of Freedom [Vimuttimagga]

148 Vimuttimagganumber of beings to acquire merit with the three miracles, namely, the miracleof supernormal power, the miracle of mind reading and the miracle ofinstruction. 1 He has aroused confidence in the hearts of men. He hasoverthrown all soothsaying and all false views. He has obliterated the badroad and opened the good road and made men to acquire the fruit of liberationor birth in the heaven world. He has caused his hearers to obtain peace anddwell in the law of the hearer. 2 He has set down many precepts, preachedthe Pdrimokkha, established beings in excellent merit, given them the perfectteaching of the Enlightened One and filled the world full (with the Truth).All beings worship and honour him, and all deities and humans hear him.Thus the Blessed One, who dwells unperturbed, has compassionated andbenefitted the world, has done what should be done.That yogin recollects him who comes and goes in the same way, thus:Through these ways and these virtues, he arouses confidence in his mind.Being full of confidence and being easy in the recollection, his mind is alwaysundisturbed. Because of his mind being undisturbed, he attains to accessmeditation.Q. How is it that one who meditates on the Buddha attains to accessand not to fixed meditation, jhana ?A. In the highest sense, the virtue of the Buddha is a subject of profoundwisdom. In this sense the yogin cannot attain to fixed meditation, jhana,owing to abstruseness. And again, he has to recollect not merely one virtue.When he thinks on many virtues he cannot attain to fixed meditation, jhana.This is a subject of meditation of all access-concentration.Q. Access is attained through concentration on a single object. If hethinks on many virtues, his mind is not concentrated. How then does hegain access?A. If he recollects the virtues of him who comes and goes in the sameway and of the Enlightened One, the yogin's mind becomes concentrated.Therefore, he is untroubled.Again it is taught that from the recollection of the Buddha, the fourmeditations, jhanas, arise. 3The recollection of the Buddha has ended.1. D. I, 212 ff.; Ill, 220: Tini pdtihdriydni. Iddhi-pdtihdriyam, ddesand-pd(ihdriyam, anusdsanipdtihdriyarh.Ime kho dvuso tena Bhagavatd jdnatd passatd... .tayo dhammd sammadakkhdtd.Tattha sabbeh Vva samgdyitabbam na vivaditabbarh... .pe.... atthdya hitdyasukhdya deva-manussdnam.2. Sdvaka-dhamma.3. A. Ill, 285: Yasmirh Mahdndma samaye ariyasdvako Tathdgatam anussarati, nev* assatasmim samaye rdgapariyutthitam cittarh hoti\ na dosapariyutthitam cittarh hoti, na mohapariyutthitamcittarh hoti, ujugatam ev' assa tasmim samaye cittarh hoti Tathdgatam drabbha.Ujugatacitto kho pana Mahdndma ariyasdvako labhati atthavedam, labhati dhammavedam,labhati dhammupasamhitam pdmujjam, pamuditassa phi jdyati, pitimanassa kayo passam-