Samadhi

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Sam¤dhi

WP, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, #9: Right View, Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans, pp134

PTS: Majjhima Nikaya III: #118 (Middle Length Sayings III #118: Mindfulness When Breathing, Horner trans., pp127)

WP: The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, #118: Mindfulness of Breathing., Nanamoli/Bodhi, trans., pp946

PTS: The Book of the Gradual Sayings II: The Book of the Fours, II: Deportment iv: Restraint, Woodward, trans, pp16

Rhys Davids: Buddhist Suttas, I: The Book of the Great Decease, Chapter I, note 17

Pali	MO	Hare	Horner	Punnaji	Bodhi	Nanamoli	Rhys Davids	(Mrs)Rhys Davids	Thanissaro	Walshe	Woodward
sam¤dhi	Getting High	concentration	concentration	Equilibrium, Mental Repose	concentration	concentration	earnest contemplation, rapture	concentration	concentration	Concentration	concentration

Pali Text Society, Pali English Dictionary (edited entry):
Sam¤dhi: [fr. sa¸+¤+dh¤] 1. concentration; a concentrated, self-collected, intent state of mind and meditation, which, concomitant with right living, is a necessary condition to the attainment of higher wisdom and emancipation. In the Subha-suttanta of the Digha (D I.209 sq.) sam¤dhi-khandha...is the title otherwise given to the cittasampad¤...Thus sam¤dhi would comprise (a) the guarding of the senses... (b) self-possession... (c) contentment... (d) emancipation from the 5 hindrances (e) the 4 jh¤nas....A III.12...D III.229...A I.125; II.20; III.15; V.326;... It is defined as cittassa ekaggat¤ M I.301;...and with samatha...-- samm¤* is one the constituents of the eightfold ariya-magga, e. g. D III.277;... -- See further D II.123 (ariya); Vin I.97, 104; S I.28;... 2. Description & characterization of sam¤dhi: Its four nimittas or signs are the four satipaÂÂh¤nas M I.301; six conditions and six hindrances A III.427; other hindrances M III.158. The second jh¤na is born from sam¤dhi D II.186; it is a condition for attaining kusal¤ dhamm¤ A I.115;...; conducive to insight A III.19, 24 sq., 200; S IV.80; to seeing heavenly sights etc. D I.173; to removing mountains etc. A III.311; removes the delusions of self A I.132 sq.; leads to Arahantship A II.45;...cetosam¤dhi (rapture of mind) D I.13; A II.54; III.51; S IV.297; citta* id..... dhamm¤sam¤dhi almost identical with samatha S IV.350 sq. ...-- Three kinds of s. are distinguished, su¾¾ata or empty, appa¼ihita or aimless, and animitta or signless A I.299; S IV.360; cp. IV.296; Vin III.93;... --it is fourfold chanda-, viriya-, citta-, and v¨ma¸sa-sam¤dhi D II.213; S V.268.... -indriya the faculty of concentration A II.149... -ja produced by concentration D I.74; III.13; Vism 158. -bala the power of concentration A I.94; II.252; D III.213, 253;... -bh¤van¤ cultivation, attainment of sam¤dhi M I.301; A II.44 sq. (four different kinds mentioned); III.25 sq.; D III.222; Vism 371. -sambojjhanga the s. constituent of enlightment D III.106, 226, 252; Vism 134...