SN 28.5
Ākāsānañcāyatana sutta: The Dimension of Infinite Space
Ākāsānañcāyatanasutta
Sāriputtavagga
Sāriputta goes to Mirkwood for meditation, and afterwards Ānanda asks why his face is so radiant. Sāriputta replies that he was practicing the dimension of infinite space without any thought of self.
Translations
At Sāvatthī.
Venerable Ānanda saw Venerable Sāriputta …
“Reverend, going totally beyond perceptions of form, with the disappearance of perceptions of impingement, not focusing on perceptions of diversity, aware that ‘space is infinite’, I entered and remained in the dimension of infinite space. …” …
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