Saṃyutta Nikāya
5. Mahā-Vagga
51. Iddhi-Pāda Saṃyutta
2. Pāsāda-Kampana Vagga
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
5. The Great Chapter
51. Kindred Sayings on the Bases of Psychic Power
2. The Shaking of the Terraced House
Sutta 18
Bhikkhu Suttaṃ
Monk
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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Once the Exalted One was staying near Sāvatthī.
Then the Exalted One addressed the monks,
saying:
"Monks."
"Yes, lord," replied those monks to the Exalted One.
The Exalted One said:
"Monks, it is by cultivating
and making much of
four bases of psychic power
that a monk,
by the destruction of the āsavas,
realizes even in this very life
by his own unaided powers
the heart's release,
the release by insight
which is free from the āsavas,
and having won it
dwells therein.
§
What are the four?
Herein a monk cultivates that basis of psychic power
of which the features are
desire,
together with the co-factors
of concentration
and struggle.
He cultivates that basis of psychic power
of which the features are
energy,
together with the co-factors
of concentration
and struggle.
He cultivates that basis of psychic power
of which the features are
thought,
together with the co-factors
of concentration
and struggle.
He cultivates that basis of psychic power
of which the features are
investigation,
together with the co-factors
of concentration
and struggle.
§
Monks, it is by cultivating
and making much of
these four bases of psychic power
that a monk,
by the destruction of the āsavas,
realizes even in this very life
by his own unaided powers
the heart's release,
the release by insight
which is free from the āsavas,
and having won it
dwells therein."
