[463] What nine dhammas should be directly known? The nine progressive abidings (anupubbavihārā). 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 and examination (vitakka-vicāra), with rapture (pīti) and happiness 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, is without thought and without examination, with rapture and happiness born of concentration (samādhi). With the fading away of rapture, he dwells equanimous, mindful and clearly comprehending (sato sampajāno), and he experiences happiness with the body; he enters and dwells in the third jhāna, of which the noble ones declare: 'He is equanimous, mindful, one who dwells in happiness.' 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 due to equanimity (upekkhā). With the complete transcending of perceptions of form, with the disappearance of perceptions of sensory impingement, with non-attention to perceptions of diversity, [aware that] 'space is infinite,' he enters and dwells in the base of the infinity of space (ākāsānañcāyatana). Completely transcending the base of the infinity of space, [aware that] 'consciousness is infinite,' he enters and dwells in the base of the infinity of consciousness (viññāṇañcāyatana). Completely transcending the base of the infinity of consciousness, [aware that] 'there is nothing,' he enters and dwells in the base of nothingness (ākiñcaññāyatana). Completely transcending the base of nothingness, he enters and dwells in the base of neither-perception-nor-non-perception (nevasaññānāsaññāyatana). Completely transcending the base of neither-perception-nor-non-perception, he enters and dwells in the cessation of perception and feeling (saññāvedayitanirodha). These nine dhammas should be directly known.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.