[232] Four jhānas (cattāri jhānāni):
Here, friends, a bhikkhu, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome states, enters and dwells in the first jhāna, which is accompanied by thought (vitakka) and examination (vicāra), with rapture (pīti) and pleasure born of seclusion. With the subsiding of thought and examination, he enters and dwells in the second jhāna, which has internal confidence and unification of mind (ekodibhāva), is without thought and without examination, and has rapture and pleasure born of concentration (samādhi). With the fading away of rapture, he dwells equanimous, and, with mindfulness and clear comprehension, he experiences pleasure with the body; he enters and dwells in the third jhāna, of which the noble ones declare: 'Equanimous and mindful, he dwells in pleasure.' With the abandoning of pleasure and the abandoning of pain, and with the previous disappearance of joy and grief, he enters and dwells in the fourth jhāna, which is neither painful nor pleasant and has purity of mindfulness born of equanimity.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.