Dear Dimitri and all,
I followed with interest the discussions. Sometimes it is difficult to make
out what is in the text, and we have to consider as well to whom the Buddha
spoke.
Here is a text which may be of interest:
Puggala pa~n`natti, Human Types, the fourth book of the Abhidhamma. I have
only the PTS translation:
Division of Human Types by four. In this sectiopn it is asked:
1. How does a person attain the inner tranquillity of mind but not the
higher wisdom of insight into things?
2. How does a person attain the higher wisdom of insight into things but not
the inner tranquillity of mind ?
3. How does a person attain both?
4. How does a person attain neither?
We read as to 2:
<Here a certain person is an attainer of the supramundane path and fruition,
but not of ecstatic meditation [lit. gainer of the samaapattis] accompanied
by an idea of form or formlessness. In this way a person attains the higher
wisdom of insight into things but not the inner tranquillity of mind.>
The term itself of sukkhavipassaka may be from the commentary, but the idea
it represents, insight alone, is found in the Tipitaka, such as in the text
above.
Nina.