[117] "Brahmin, the Blessed One did not praise all meditation (jhāna), nor did the Blessed One not praise all meditation. And what kind of meditation, brahmin, did the Blessed One not praise? Here, brahmin, a certain one dwells with a mind (citta) obsessed by sensual lust (kāmarāga), overwhelmed by sensual lust, and he does not understand as it really is the escape from sensual lust that has arisen; having made sensual lust itself the thing harboured within, he meditates, broods, contemplates, and ruminates. He dwells with a mind obsessed by ill will (byāpāda), overwhelmed by ill will, and he does not understand as it really is the escape from ill will that has arisen; having made ill will itself the thing harboured within, he meditates, broods, contemplates, and ruminates. He dwells with a mind obsessed by dullness and drowsiness (thīna-middha), overwhelmed by dullness and drowsiness, and he does not understand as it really is the escape from dullness and drowsiness that have arisen; having made dullness and drowsiness themselves the thing harboured within, he meditates, broods, contemplates, and ruminates. He dwells with a mind obsessed by restlessness and remorse (uddhacca-kukkucca), overwhelmed by restlessness and remorse, and he does not understand as it really is the escape from restlessness and remorse that have arisen; having made restlessness and remorse themselves the thing harboured within, he meditates, broods, contemplates, and ruminates. He dwells with a mind obsessed by doubt (vicikicchā), overwhelmed by doubt, and he does not understand as it really is the escape from doubt that has arisen; having made doubt itself the thing harboured within, he meditates, broods, contemplates, and ruminates. Brahmin, the Blessed One did not praise meditation of such a kind.
And what kind of meditation, brahmin, did the Blessed One praise? Here, brahmin, a bhikkhu, secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome states, enters upon and dwells in the first jhāna, which is accompanied by thought (vitakka) and examination (vicāra), with rapture and pleasure born of seclusion; with the subsiding of thought and examination, [he enters upon and dwells in] the second jhāna, which has internal confidence and unification of mind, is without thought and examination, and has rapture and pleasure born of concentration (samādhi) … the third jhāna … he enters upon and dwells in the fourth jhāna. Brahmin, the Blessed One praised meditation of such a kind."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.