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"Monks,
for one in whom mindfulness immersed in the body is cultivated, developed,
pursued, given a means of transport, given a grounding, steadied, consolidated,
& well-undertaken, ten benefits can be expected. Which ten?
"[1]
He conquers displeasure & delight, and displeasure does not conquer him. He
remains victorious over any displeasure that has arisen.
"[2]
He conquers fear & dread, and fear & dread do not conquer him. He
remains victorious over any fear & dread that have arisen.
"[3]
He is resistant to cold, heat, hunger, thirst, the touch of gadflies &
mosquitoes, wind & sun & creeping things; to abusive, hurtful language;
he is the sort that can endure bodily feelings that, when they arise, are
painful, sharp, stabbing, fierce, distasteful, disagreeable, deadly.
"[4]
He can attain at will, without trouble or difficulty, the four jhanas --
heightened mental states providing a pleasant abiding in the here & now.
"[5]
He wields manifold supranormal powers. Having been one he becomes many; having
been many he becomes one. He appears. He vanishes. He goes unimpeded through
walls, ramparts, & mountains as if through space. He dives in & out of
the earth as if it were water. He walks on water without sinking as if it were
dry land. Sitting crosslegged he flies through the air like a winged bird. With
his hand he touches & strokes even the sun & moon, so mighty &
powerful. He exercises influence with his body even as far as the Brahma
worlds.
"[6]
He hears -- by means of the divine ear-element, purified & surpassing the
human -- both kinds of sounds: divine & human, whether near or far.
"[7]
He knows the awareness of other beings, other individuals, having encompassed
it with his own awareness. He discerns a mind with passion as a mind with
passion, and a mind without passion as a mind without passion. He discerns a
mind with aversion as a mind with aversion, and a mind without aversion as a
mind without aversion. He discerns a mind with delusion as a mind with
delusion, and a mind without delusion as a mind without delusion. He discerns a
restricted mind as a restricted mind, and a scattered mind as a scattered mind.
He discerns an enlarged mind as an enlarged mind, and an unenlarged mind as an
unenlarged mind. He discerns an excelled mind [one that is not at the most
excellent level] as an excelled mind, and an unexcelled mind as an unexcelled mind.
He discerns a concentrated mind as a concentrated mind, and an unconcentrated
mind as an unconcentrated mind. He discerns a released mind as a released mind,
and an unreleased mind as an unreleased mind.
"[8]
He recollects his manifold past lives (lit: previous homes), i.e., one birth,
two births, three births, four, five, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, one
hundred, one thousand, one hundred thousand, many aeons of cosmic contraction,
many aeons of cosmic expansion, many aeons of cosmic contraction &
expansion, [recollecting], 'There I had such a name, belonged to such a clan,
had such an appearance. Such was my food, such my experience of pleasure &
pain, such the end of my life. Passing away from that state, I re-arose there.
There too I had such a name, belonged to such a clan, had such an appearance.
Such was my food, such my experience of pleasure & pain, such the end of my
life. Passing away from that state, I re-arose here.' Thus he remembers his
manifold past lives in their modes & details.
"[9]
He sees -- by means of the divine eye, purified & surpassing the human --
beings passing away & re-appearing, and he discerns how they are inferior
& superior, beautiful & ugly, fortunate & unfortunate in accordance
with their kamma: 'These beings -- who were endowed with bad conduct of body,
speech, & mind, who reviled the noble ones, held wrong views and undertook
actions under the influence of wrong views -- with the break-up of the body,
after death, have re-appeared in the plane of deprivation, the bad destination,
the lower realms, in hell. But these beings -- who were endowed with good
conduct of body, speech, & mind, who did not revile the noble ones, who
held right views and undertook actions under the influence of right views --
with the break-up of the body, after death, have re-appeared in the good
destinations, in the heavenly world.' Thus -- by means of the divine eye,
purified & surpassing the human -- he sees beings passing away &
re-appearing, and he discerns how they are inferior & superior, beautiful
& ugly, fortunate & unfortunate in accordance with their kamma.
"[10]
Through the ending of the mental effluents, he remains in the effluent-free
release of awareness & release of discernment, having known and made them
manifest for himself right in the here & now.
"Monks,
for one in whom mindfulness immersed in the body is cultivated, developed,
pursued, given a means of transport, given a grounding, steadied, consolidated,
& well-undertaken, these ten benefits can be expected."
That
is what the Blessed One said. Gratified, the monks delighted in the Blessed
One's words.
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