Dutiyajhānasuttādisattaka — a merged page, continuing the twenty-sixth chapter of the Fives
Setting
None stated; the discourse continues from AN 5.1, whose setting at Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove is understood to hold
Speakers
The Buddha alone, addressing the mendicants
Form
one paired block/enable statement, the same five stinginess domains cross-run against seven attainments — representing seven individually numbered discourses
Length
under 1 minute to read
Northern parallel
not identified in this collection
Difficulty
★★☆☆☆ — compressed, but modest in scale next to the largest blocks in this series
Why this discourse
Seven discourses stand behind one sentence. AN 5.256 named the first absorption alone; this page runs the identical five-item stinginess formula against the second, third, and fourth absorptions, and against the fruits of stream-entry, once-return, non-return, and full awakening — the standard four-jhāna-plus-four-fruit sequence this collection uses whenever it wants to name every stage of the path at once. In bilara-data this entire stretch survives as a single file, an5.257-263, rather than seven separate ones — the same merged-file convention already met at the close of the Threes and Fours, here on a far smaller scale.
Reading guide
The teaching in one sentence
The identical five stinginess domains from AN 5.256 — dwellings, families, material things, praise, and the teachings — are now run against six further attainments beyond the first absorption: the second, third, and fourth absorptions, and the fruits of stream-entry, once-return, non-return, and full awakening.
Why these seven, and in this order
Four jhānas followed by four path-fruits, with the first jhāna already given its own page at AN 5.256, is a sequence this collection reuses whenever it wants to name the entire graduated path from initial absorption to final liberation in one gesture. The same five obstructing qualities are said to block, and their removal to enable, every stage in that sequence without exception.
A merged page, not a hand-written summary
AN 5.257 through AN 5.263 have no individual files in bilara-data; the source itself compresses them into a single file under this hyphenated name, with the Pali using its own peyyāla mark for the repeated middle portion. This page follows that file exactly rather than writing seven near-identical pages by hand.
A count the source confirms
This page's title in Pali, Dutiyajhānasuttādisattaka, names itself directly: ‘the second-absorption discourse and so on, a group of seven’. The number in the source's own title matches the seven sutta-numbers, 257 through 263, this single page represents.
Scale, compared to the largest blocks in this series
This is the same merged-file mechanism already used for AN 4.304–783, which compressed four hundred eighty discourses into one page. This page compresses only seven — modest by comparison, but the same underlying convention: where bilara-data has no individual file for a stretch of sutta-numbers, this series represents that stretch as a single page rather than inventing individual pages the source does not provide.
What follows
AN 5.264 restates the whole first-absorption formula once more, with one of the five domains replaced — and AN 5.265–271 then extends that variant formula across the identical seven-attainment sequence, in a second merged page.
Key terms
dutiya jhāna, tatiya jhāna, catuttha jhāna — the second, third, and fourth absorptions — three of the six attainments this page adds beyond AN 5.256's first absorption.
sotāpattiphala, sakadāgāmiphala, anāgāmiphala — the fruits of stream-entry, once-return, and non-return — three of the four path-fruits named here.
arahatta — full awakening, arahantship — the seventh and final attainment in this page's sequence, and the summary term the passage closes on.
…pe… — the Pali source's own peyyāla mark, compressing the repeated middle portion of this seven-fold sequence into a single line.
Dutiyajhānasuttādisattaka — “the second-absorption discourse and so on, a group of seven” — this page's Pali title, naming its own scope directly.
The text
The formula exactly as the source compresses it: the five stinginess domains, run against seven attainments in sequence. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).
What blocks each attainment
§1“Mendicants, without giving up these five qualities you can’t enter and remain in the second absorption … third absorption … fourth absorption … or realize the fruit of stream-entry … the fruit of once-return … the fruit of non-return … perfection. What five? Stinginess with dwellings, families, material things, praise, and the teachings. Without giving up these five qualities you can’t realize perfection.
What enables each attainment
§2But after giving up these five qualities you can enter and remain in the second absorption … third absorption … fourth absorption … and realize the fruit of stream-entry … the fruit of once-return … the fruit of non-return … perfection. What five? Stinginess with dwellings, families, material things, praise, and the teachings. After giving up these five qualities you can realize perfection.”
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Self-check quiz
Ten questions. Click an answer to see immediate feedback. No score is recorded — this is for your own checking.
Question 1 of 10
How many individually numbered discourses does this one page represent?
Correct: A. Confirmed by the Pali title's own word, 'sattaka', 'a group of seven'.
Question 2 of 10
What five domains block or enable each of the seven attainments on this page?
Correct: A. The identical formula carried over unchanged from AN 5.256.
Question 3 of 10
What seven attainments does this page's formula cover?
Correct: A. The standard four-jhāna-plus-four-fruit sequence, minus the first jhāna already given its own page at AN 5.256.
Question 4 of 10
How does bilara-data represent AN 5.257 through AN 5.263?
Correct: A. The source's own compression, followed here rather than invented by hand.
Question 5 of 10
What earlier merged page in this series uses the identical convention?
Correct: A. The same mechanism, here on a much smaller scale: seven sutta-numbers, not hundreds.
Question 6 of 10
What does the Pali title 'Dutiyajhānasuttādisattaka' mean?
Correct: A. Confirming the page's own seven-item scope directly in its Pali name.
Question 7 of 10
What does '…pe…' mark in the Pali source?
Correct: A. Already explained at AN 5.108, and cited here rather than re-explained.
Question 8 of 10
What formula does AN 5.264 restate next, with one change?
Correct: A. Opening a second, parallel run through the same seven-attainment sequence.
Question 9 of 10
What attainment did AN 5.256, immediately before this page, cover alone?
Correct: A. This page picks up from the second absorption onward.
Question 10 of 10
What is the guide's stated principle for when this series represents a stretch of sutta-numbers as one merged page?
Correct: A. The page follows the source's own file structure exactly.
