World Canonical Texts
SN14:1 (SA451): Savatthi, bhikkhus
"The eye element, form element, eye-consciousness element;
the ear element, sound element, ear-consciousness element;
the nose element, odour element, nose-consciousness element;
the tongue element, taste element, tongue-consciousness element;
the body element, tactile-object element, body-consciousness element;
the mind element, mental-phenomena element, mind-consciousness element.
This is called the diversity of elements."
SN36:6 (SA470): Savatthi, bhikkhus
"When an uninstructed wordling is contacted by a painful feeling, he grieves and weeps. He feels two feelings - a bodily one and a mental one.
"He harbors aversion towards painful feeling. He seeks delight in sensual pleasure. He does not understand as it really is the origin and the passing away, the gratification, the danger, and the escape of these feelings. If he feels a pleasant feeling, a painful feeling, a neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling, he feels attached. This is called an uninstructed worldling who is attached to birth, aging and death; lamentation, pain, displeasure and despair."
SN36:11 (SA474): Savatthi, bhikkhus
"These three feelings have been spoken of by me: pleasant feeling, painful feeling, neither-pleasant-nor-painful feeling. And I have also said: 'Whatever is felt is included in suffering.' That has been stated by me with reference to the impermanence of formations, to formations being subject to change.
"I have also taught the successive cessation of formations.
For one who has attained the first jhana, speech has ceased.
For one who has attained the second jhana, thought and examination has ceased.
For one who has attained the third jhana, rapture has ceased.
For one who has attained the fourth jhana, in-breathing and out-breathing has ceased.
For one who has attained the base of the infinity of space, the perception of form has ceased.
For one who has attained the base of the infinity of consciousness, the perception pertaining to the base of the infinity of space has ceased.
For one who has attained the base of nothingness, the perception pertaining to the base of the infinity of consciousness has ceased.
For one who has attained the base of neither-perception-nor-nonperception, the perception pertaining to the base of nothingness has ceased.
For one who has attained the cessation of perception and feeling, perception and feeling has ceased."
SN36:23 (SA476): Savatthi, a bhikkhu
"There are these three feelings: pleasant feeling, painful feeling, neither-pleasant-nor-painful feeling. With the arising of contact there is the arising of feeling. Craving is the way leading to the origination of feeling. With the cessation of contact there is the cessation of feeling. The pleasure and joy that arise in dependence on feeling: this is the gratification in feeling. The feeling is impermanent and subject to change: this is the danger in feeling. The removal and abandonment of desire and lust for feeling: this is the escape from feeling."
SN54:13 (SA810): Savatthi, Ananda
"Concentration by mindfulness of breathing is the one thing which, when developed and cultivated, fulfils the four establishments of mindfulness. The four establishments of mindfulness, when developed and cultivated, fulfil the seven factors of enlightenment. The seven factors of enlightenment, when developed and cultivated, fulfil true knowledge and liberation.
"How is concentration by mindfulness of breathing developed and cultivated so that it fulfils the four establishments of mindfulness?
"Here, a bhikkhu, having gone to the forest. to the foot of a tree, or to an empty hut, sits down. Having folded his legs crosswise, straightened his body, and set up mindfulness in front of him, just mindful he breathes in, mindful he breathes out.
"Whenever a bhikkhu, when breathing in long, knows: 'I breathe in long'; or, when breathing out long, knows: 'I breathe out long'; when breathing in short, knows: 'I breathe in short'; or, when breathing out short, knows: 'I breathe out short; when he trains thus: 'Experiencing the whole body, I will breathe in'; 'Experiencing the whole body, I will breathe out'; when he trains thus: 'Tranquillizing the bodily formation, I will breathe in'; when he trains thus: 'Tranquillizing the bodily formation, I will breathe out' --on that occasion the bhikkhu dwells contemplating the body in the body, ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful, having removed covetousness and displeasure in regard to the world.
"Whenever a bhikkhu trains thus: '[Experiencing rapture], I will breathe in'; when he trains thus: '[Experiencing rapture], I will breathe out'; (repeat for Experiencing happiness, Experiencing the mental formation, Tranquillizing the mental formation)--on that occasion the bhikkhu dwells contemplating feelings in feelings, ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful, having removed covetousness and displeasure in regard to the world.
"Whenever a bhikkhu trains thus: '[Experiencing] the mind, I will breathe in'; when he trains thus: '[Experiencing] the mind, I will breathe out'; (repeat for Gladdening, Concentrating, Liberating)--on that occasion, the bhikkhu dwells contemplating mind in mind, ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful, having removed covetousness and displeasure in regard to the world.
"Whenever a bhikkhu trains thus: 'Contemplating [impermanence], I will breathe in'; when he trains thus: 'Contemplating [impermance], I will breathe out'l (repeat for fading away, cessation, relinquishment)--on that occasion, the bhikkhu dwells contemplating phenomena in phenomena, ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful, having removed covetousness and displeasure in regard to the world.
"How are the four establishments of mindfulness developed and cultivated so that they fulfil the seven factors of enlightenment?
"Whenever a bhikkhu dwells contemplating the [body] in the [body], on that occasion unmuddled is established in that bhikkhu.
"Whenever unmuddled mindfulness has been established in a bhikkhu, on that occasion the bhikkhu develops (to fulfilment) the enlightenment factor of mindfulness.
"Whenever a bhikkhu dwelling thus mindfully discriminates that Dhamma with wisdom, examines it, makes an investigation of it, on that occasion the bhikkhu develops (to fulfillment) the enlightenment factor of discrimination of states.
"Whenever a bhikkhu's energy is aroused without slackening as he discriminates that Dhamma with wisdom, examines it, makes an investigation of it, on that occasion the bhikkhu develops (to fulfilment) he enlightenment factor of energy.
"Whenever spiritual rapture arises in a bhikkhu whose energy is aroused, on that occasion the bhikkhu develops (to fulfilment) the enlightenment factor of rapture.
"Whenever the body and mind becomes tranquil in a bhikkhu whose mind is uplifted by rapture, on that occasion the bhikkhu develops (to fulfilment) the enlightenment factor of tranquillity.
"Whenever the mind becomes concentrated in a bhikkhu whose body is tranquil and who is happy, on that occasion the bhikkhu develops (to fulfilment) the enlightenment factor of concentration.
"Whenever a bhikkhu closely looks on with equanimity at the mind thus concentrated, on that occasion the bhikkhu develops (to fulfilment) the enlightenment factor of equanimity.
(Repeat for feelings, mind, phenomena.)
"How are the seven factors of enlightenment developed and cultivated so that they fulfill true knowledge and liberation?
"Here a bhikkhu develops the enlightenment factor of [mindfulness], which is based upon seclusion, dispassion, and cessation, maturing in release. (Repeat for the discrimination of states, energy, rapture, tranquillity, concentration, equanimity.)
SN55:17 (SA836): Savatthi, bhikkhus
"Those for whom you have compassion and who think you should be heeded -- these you should exhort, settle, and establish in the four factors of stream-entry: in confirmed confidence in the Buddha, in confirmed confidence in the Dhamma, in confirmed confidence in the Sangha, in the virtues dear to the noble ones.
"There may be alteration in the four great elements--in the earth, water, heat, air elements--but there cannot be alteration in the noble disciple who possesses [confirmed confidence in the Buddha]. Therein this is alteration: that the noble disciple who possesses [confirmed confidence in the Buddha might be reborn in hell, in the animal realm, or in the domain of ghosts. This is impossible. (Repeat for the 3 other factors of stream-entry.)"