[33] **For one of such a kind is far from seclusion.** *Seclusion (viveka)*: there are three kinds of seclusion — bodily seclusion (kāyaviveka), mental seclusion (cittaviveka), and seclusion from acquisitions (upadhiviveka).
What is bodily seclusion? Here a bhikkhu resorts to a secluded lodging: a forest, the root of a tree, a mountain, a ravine, a mountain cave, a charnel ground, a forest thicket, the open air, a heap of straw — and he dwells secluded in body. He goes alone, stands alone, sits alone, lies down alone, enters the village for alms alone, returns alone, sits alone in a private place, resolves upon walking meditation alone; alone he walks, dwells, moves, conducts himself, protects himself, maintains himself, sustains himself. This is bodily seclusion.
What is mental seclusion? For one who has attained the first jhāna, the mind (citta) is secluded from the hindrances (nīvaraṇa); for one who has attained the second jhāna, the mind is secluded from thought-conception and discursive examination; for one who has attained the third jhāna, the mind is secluded from rapture; for one who has attained the fourth jhāna, the mind is secluded from pleasure and pain; for one who has attained the Sphere of Infinity of Space, the mind is secluded from perceptions of form, perceptions of repulsion, and perceptions of diversity; for one who has attained the Sphere of Infinity of Consciousness, the mind is secluded from the perception of the Sphere of Infinity of Space; for one who has attained the Sphere of Nothingness, the mind is secluded from the perception of the Sphere of Infinity of Consciousness; for one who has attained the Sphere of Neither Perception Nor Non-Perception, the mind is secluded from the perception of the Sphere of Nothingness. For the Stream-Enterer, the mind is secluded from personality-view, doubt, adherence to rules and observances, the latent tendency to views, the latent tendency to doubt, and from the defilements standing in one and the same group with these. For the Once-Returner, the mind is secluded from the gross fetter of sensual lust and fetter of repulsion, from the gross latent tendency to sensual lust and latent tendency to repulsion, and from the defilements standing in one and the same group with these. For the Non-Returner, the mind is secluded from the residual fetter of sensual lust and fetter of repulsion, from the residual latent tendency to sensual lust and latent tendency to repulsion, and from the defilements standing in one and the same group with these. For the Arahant, the mind is secluded from greed for fine-material existence, greed for immaterial existence, conceit, restlessness, ignorance, the latent tendency to conceit, the latent tendency to lust for existence, the latent tendency to ignorance, from the defilements standing in one and the same group with these, and, externally, from all signs. This is mental seclusion.
What is seclusion from acquisitions? *Acquisitions (upadhi)* means the defilements, the aggregates (khandha), and volitional formations (abhisaṅkhāra). Seclusion from acquisitions is called the Deathless, Nibbāna — namely, the stilling of all formations, the relinquishing of all acquisitions, the destruction of craving (taṇhā), dispassion, cessation, Nibbāna. This is seclusion from acquisitions.
Bodily seclusion belongs to those withdrawn in body who delight in renunciation; mental seclusion belongs to those whose minds are purified, who have attained supreme cleansing; seclusion from acquisitions belongs to persons without acquisitions, who have gone to the unconditioned (visaṅkhāra).
**Far from seclusion**: whoever is thus attached in the cave, thus covered over by many defilements, thus sunk into delusion — he is far from bodily seclusion, far from mental seclusion, far from seclusion from acquisitions; very far, exceedingly far, not near, not close by, not adjacent, not in the vicinity. **Of such a kind**: of such a kind, such-like, so constituted, of that sort, of that likeness — namely, one who is sunk in delusion. Hence: "For one of such a kind is far from seclusion."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.