Re: Anomalies in the suttas?

Dear friends who were interlocutors on the "assāsapassāsānaṃ nirodho"
discussion:

Just revisiting this theme momentarily to draw to your attention to another
interesting sutta of relevance to this topic: SN V.10.1.8 *Padīpopama
Sutta*(SN 54.8; PTS S v.316).

This sutta asserts the importance of ānāpānassatisamādhi for attainment of
every meditative state all the way up to saññāvedayitanirodhaṃ.  I suppose
it "could" be interpreted to mean that ānāpānassati is important only up to
catutthaṃ jhānaṃ, in each case; but when I read the entire sequence, such an
interpretation doesn't seem quite appropriate.  The descriptions are of
course from the point of view of the meditator, which is, I think,
important: perhaps this sutta supports what was said earlier about the
'subjective' experience of (subtle) breathing on the part of the meditator.

With metta,
Khristos


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