[985] **A bhikkhu, mindful, with mind well released** (*bhikkhu satīmā suvimuttacitto*): **Bhikkhu**: a bhikkhu who is a good worldling (kalyāṇaputhujjana) or a bhikkhu who is a trainee (sekha). **Mindful**: that which is mindfulness (sati), recollection … Right Mindfulness, the mindfulness factor of awakening (bojjhaṅga), the one-way path (ekāyanamagga) — this is called mindfulness. One endowed with … this mindfulness — he is called mindful. Thus, "a bhikkhu, mindful."
**With mind well released**: for one who has attained the first jhāna, the mind (citta) is freed, released, well released from the hindrances (nīvaraṇa); for one who has attained the second jhāna, the mind is freed, released, well released from thought-conception and discursive thought (vitakka-vicāra); for one who has attained the third jhāna, the mind is freed, released, well released from rapture; for one who has attained the fourth jhāna, the mind is freed, released, well released from pleasure and pain; for one who has attained the Sphere of Infinity of Space (ākāsānañcāyatana), the mind is freed, released, well released from perception of form, perception of impingement, and perception of diversity; for one who has attained the Sphere of Infinity of Consciousness (viññāṇañcāyatana), the mind [is freed, released, well released] from perception of the Sphere of Infinity of Space; for one who has attained the Sphere of Nothingness (ākiñcaññāyatana), the mind [is freed, released, well released] from perception of the Sphere of Infinity of Consciousness; for one who has attained the Sphere of Neither Perception Nor Non-Perception (nevasaññānāsaññāyatana), the mind is freed, released, well released from perception of the Sphere of Nothingness.
For the Stream-Enterer (sotāpanna), the mind is freed, released, well released from personality-view (sakkāyadiṭṭhi), doubt, adherence to rules and observances (sīlabbataparāmāsa), the latent tendency (anusaya) to views, the latent tendency to doubt, and from the defilements (kilesa) that stand together with these. For the Once-Returner (sakadāgāmī), the mind is freed, released, well released from the gross latent tendency to sensual lust and the latent tendency to repulsion, and from the defilements that stand together with these. For the Non-Returner (anāgāmī), the mind is freed, released, well released from the subtle-residual fetter of sensual lust and fetter of repulsion, from the subtle-residual latent tendency to sensual lust and latent tendency to repulsion, and from the defilements that stand together with these. For the Arahant, the mind is freed, released, well released from lust for form (rūparāga), lust for the formless (arūparāga), conceit (māna), restlessness, ignorance, the latent tendency to conceit, the latent tendency to lust for existence, the latent tendency to ignorance, from the defilements that stand together with these, and, externally, from all signs (nimitta). Thus, "a bhikkhu, mindful, with mind well released."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.