Akincannayatana

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£ki¾ca¾¾¤yatana

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Mulapariyaya Resources section of BuddhaDust
PTS: Middle Length Sayings I, #1: Discourse on the Synopsis of Fundamentals, Horner, trans., pp 3.
WP: Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: The Root of All Things, Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans., pp 83 Examining the Mulapariyaya -- Analysis

The Root Sequence, Bhikkhu Thanissaro, translation of the Mulapariyaya

Pali	MO	Hare	Horner	Punnaji	Bodhi	Rhys Davids	(Mrs)Rhys Davids	Thanissaro	Walshe	Woodward
£ki¾ca¾¾¤yatana	the realm of no things there	nothingness	the plane of no-thing		the base of nothingness	nothing at all		the sphere of nothingness

Pali Text Society, Pali English Dictionary (edited entry):
£ki¾ca¾¾¤: state of hving nothing, absence of (any) possessions; nothingness (the latter as philosophical -bh¤va: "cherish no worldly wishes whatsoever" +ayatana(=the sphere, or Realm or area of) nothingness

PED on Line (no diacriticals): "Akincanna"
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"I nearly got there today!"
"Where?"
"The Sphere that isn't there.

This is a location, not the jhana, although one arrives at this location by way of the jhana; or, it is a term for describing the state of living in this jhana. In either case it is arrived at by letting go of, paying no attention to The Sphere of Unlimited Space, paying no attention to The Sphere of Unlimited Consciousness, and paying attention only to perception of The Sphere Where No Thing’s There. If you picture the Sphere of Unlimited Space as being empty of coarse material forms, and the Sphere of Unlimited Consciousness as dealing only with consciousness of the consciousness of things, then the state arrived at in this case is one up passed coarse material forms, empty space and consciousness of things

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