Path of Freedom [Vimuttimagga]

362 AppendixIn the Dantabhumi Sutta of the Majjhima JVikdya, the Blessed one saysthat it is not possible for one who is given to a life of pleasure, who indulgeshimself in sensual delights, who is devoured by sensual thoughts, who is consumedwith the fever of sensual enjoyment, and who is eager in the pursuitof the sensually pleasant, to experience, see, or realise, what has to be experienced,seen, and realised by renunciation of sense-desires. 1 Now sense-desiresand the other hindrances to the First jhana are not conducive to the penetrationof things and seeing them as they are. So, for the development of insight(vipassand), the bringing into being of the First jhana is indispensable accordingto the Buddha's teaching, that is to say, the words of the Buddha in the PaliTexts. 2 There is no doubt that according to the Bodhisatta's words repeatedby the Buddha in conformation, the First jhana is truly the way to enlightenment,and so this jhdra has a specially important place in the Buddha's schemeof salvation.1. M. Ill, 129-30: Yan tarn nekkhammena ndtabbam, nekkhammena datthabbam, nekkhammenapattabbarii, nekkhammena sacchikdtabbarh, tarn vala Jayaseno rdjakumdro kdmamajjhevasanto kdme paribhunjanto kdmavitakkehi khajjamdno kdmaparijdhena paridayahamdnokdmapariyesandya ussukko nassati vd dakkhati^ vd sacchi vd karissatiti rtetam thanam vijjati.2. A. V, 1-2: Ekamantam nisinno kho dyasmd Anando Bhagavantam etad avoca 'kimathtiyanibhante kusalani sildni kimdnisamsdnV ti ? 'Avippatisdratthani kho Ananda kusaldni sildniavippatisdrdnisamsdnVti. 'Avippatisdro pana bhante kimatthiyo kimdnisamso' ti? 'Avippatisdrokho Ananda pdnmjjattho pdmujjdnisamso' ti. 'Pdmujjam pana bhante kimatthiyathkimdnisamsan' ti ? 'Pdmujjatn kho Ananda pitattharh pitanisamsan' ti. 'Piti pana bhantekimatthiya kimdnisamsd 9 ii? 'Piti kho Anandapassaddhatthapassaddhanisariisd' ti. Passaddhipana bhante kimatthiya kimdnisamsd" ti ?'Passaddhi kho Ananda sukhattha sukhdnisamsa' ti*"Sukham pana bhante kimatthiyam kimdnisamsan' ti? 'Sukham kho Ananda samddhatthamsamddhanisamsan' ti. 'Samddhi pana bhante kimatthiyo kimdnisamso' ti? 'Samddhi khoAnanda yathabkiitahdnadassanattho yathabhutahdnadassandnisamso" ti. ' Yathabhutahdnddassanampana bhante kimatthiyam kimdnisamsan'' ti ? ' Yathabhutandnadassanarh khoAnanda nibbiddvirdgattham nibbidavirdgdnisamsan > ti? Nibbiddvirdgo pana bhante kimatthiyokimdnisamso'' ti? Nibbiddvirdgo kho Ananda vimuttindnadassanattho vimuttindnadassandnisamso'ti. (= Yathabhutandnadassanattho ti ddisu yathabhutahdnadassanam namatarunavipassand; nibbidd nama balavavipassand; virago nama maggo; vimutti namaarahattaphalam: ndnadassanam nama paccavekkhanandnarh—Mp. V, 1).