What is the Mental
State in which one cannot Feel any Physical Pain?
Where does all bodily pain cease, without a trace remaining ?
When, secluded aloof from all sense-desire & isolated from any other
detrimental state,
one enters and remains in the
first jhāna absorption
of directed thought and sustained
reflection, joined with pleasure and joy, born of & in this solitary
seclusion: It is right
there, that all bodily pain ceases without a trace remaining...
Therefore do beings reborn at the
fine-material
brahma level, never feel any physical
pain, since they are continuously absorbed in this the first jhāna
concentration...
On
how to attain the Jhāna absorptions:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Details_of_the_Jhana_Absorptions.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Requisites_for_Jhana_Absorption.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Concentration.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Concentration_Samadhi.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/jhaana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Samma-Samadhi.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya. Book V
213-4
The Abilities section 48. Thread on The Irregular Order: Uppatika 40
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
