AN 4.124 Jhana Sutta

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AN 4.124 Jhana Sutta : Mental Absorption/Trance State (2)
"Monks, there are these four types of individuals to be found existing in the world. Which four?

"There is the case where an individual, withdrawn from sensuality, withdrawn from unskillful qualities, enters & remains in the first jhana/trance state: rapture & pleasure born from withdrawal, accompanied by directed thought & discernment. He regards whatever phenomena(inner tendencies) there that are connected with form, feeling, perception, fabrications, & consciousness, as inconstant, stressful(painful), a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, a disintegration, an emptiness, not-self. At the break-up of the body, after death, he reappears in conjunction with the devas(angels) of the Pure Abodes. This rebirth is not in common with run-of-the-mill(worldly) people.

"Again, there is the case where an individual... enters the second jhana/trance state... the third jhana/trance state... the fourth jhana/trance state... He regards whatever phenomena(inner tendencies) there that are connected with form, feeling, perception, fabrications, & consciousness, as inconstant, stressful(painful), a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, a disintegration, an emptiness, not-self. At the break-up of the body, after death, he reappears in conjunction with the devas(angels) of the Pure Abodes. This rebirth is not in common with run-of-the-mill(worldly) people.

"These are four types of individuals to be found existing in the world."