Visuddhimagga IV-151

Tatiyajjhānakathā

82. Evamadhigate pana tasmimpi vuttanayeneva pañcahākārehi ciṇṇavasinā hutvā paguṇadutiyajjhānato vuṭṭhāya ‘‘ayaṃ samāpatti āsannavitakkavicārapaccatthikā, ‘yadeva tattha pītigataṃ cetaso uppilāvitaṃ, etenetaṃ oḷārikaṃ akkhāyatī’ti (dī. ni. 1.96) vuttāya pītiyā oḷārikattā aṅgadubbalā’’ti ca tattha dosaṃ disvā tatiyajjhānaṃ santato manasikaritvā dutiyajjhāne nikantiṃ pariyādāya tatiyādhigamāya yogo kātabbo.

3.（第三禅）如是证得第二禅时，已于如前所述的五行相中而习行自在，从熟练的第二禅出定，学得此定依然是近于敌对的寻与伺，仍有喜心的激动，故称他的喜为粗，因为喜粗，故支亦弱，见此二禅的过失已，于第三禅寂静作意，取消了对二禅的希求，为了证得第三禅，为修瑜伽行，

Ñ(IV,151): Once this has been obtained in this way, and he has mastery in the five ways already described, then on emerging from the now familiar second jhāna he can regard the flaws in it thus: 'This attainment is threatened by the nearness of applied and sustained thought; "Whatever there is in it of happiness, of mental excitement, proclaims its grossness" (D.i,37), and its factors are weakened by the grossness of the happiness so expressed'. He can bring the third jhāna to mind as quieter and so end his attachment to the second jhāna and set about doing what is needed for attaining the third.