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AN 9.52 - A Safe Place Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato Source: https://suttacentral.net/an9.52/en/sujato License: CC0-1.0 Numbered Discourses 9.52 6. A Safe Place A Safe Place “Reverend, they speak of ‘a safe place’. In what way did the Buddha speak of a safe place?” “First, take a mendicant who, quite secluded from sensual pleasures … enters and remains in the first absorption. To this extent the Buddha spoke of a safe place in a qualified sense. … Furthermore, take a mendicant who, going totally beyond the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception, enters and remains in the cessation of perception and feeling. And, having seen with wisdom, their defilements come to an end. To this extent the Buddha spoke of a safe place in a definitive sense.”