1. Pathama Vihara Sutta
First Discourse on Staying in Solitary Retreat

Vihara Vagga, Magga Samyutta
Mahavagga Samyutta, Samyutta Nikaya, Suttanta Pitaka

        11. The Bhagava was staying at Savatthi. (He said:) Bhikkhus, I want to stay in solitary retreat for half a month. No one, except a bhikkhu bringing food to me, should approach me. 'Very well, Venerable Sir,' said the bhikkhus and no one, except the bhikkhu taking food to the Bhagava approached the Bhagava.

        Then after half a month, the Bhagava rose from his solitary retreat and addressed the bhikkhus: 'Bhikkhus, (during the half month retreat) I have been living to a certain extent¹, just as I had lived during the first days of my Enlightenment. Living in this manner, I came to know that: by reason of Wrong View, sensation arises; so also by reason of Right View, sensation arises ... p ... by reason of Wrong concentration, sensation arises: so also by reason of Right Concentration, sensation arises; by reason of craving, sensation arises; by reason of initial application of the mind, sensation arises; by reason of perception, sensation arises. When there is non-extinction of craving, there is non-extinction of initial application of the mind and non-extinction of perception; by reason of such non-extinction, sensation arises. When there is extinction of craving there is extinction of initial application of the mind, and extinction of perception; by reason of such extinction, sensation arises.

        When there is strenuous effort to attain that which has not yet been attained (namely, Arahatship) and when it is attained by reason of that effort sensation arises.

End of the Pathama Vihara Sutta,

the first in this Vagga.

        1. to a certain extent: The Buddha spent the first forty nine days of Buddhahood by reviewing the dhammas concerning with all aspects of the five aggregates. But during the half month retreat, he devoted himself to reviewing only a portion of these dhammas namely, the aggregate of sensation.