SN 28.7
Ākiñcaññāyatana sutta: The Dimension of Nothingness
Ākiñcaññāyatanasutta
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 nothingness without any thought of self.
Translations
At Sāvatthī.
Venerable Ānanda saw Venerable Sāriputta …
“Reverend, going totally beyond the dimension of infinite consciousness, aware that ‘there is nothing at all’, I entered and remained in the dimension of nothingness. …” …
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