One Who Is Capable of Entering and Residing in Right Concentration

Monks, possessing five qualities, a Monk is incapable of entering and residing in Right Concentration.

What five?

Here, a Monk cannot patiently endure forms, sounds, odors, flavors, and physical objects. Possessing these five qualities, a Monk is incapable of entering and residing in Right Concentration.

Monks, possessing five (other) qualities, a Monk is capable of entering and residing in Right Concentration.

What five?

Here, a Monk can patiently endure forms, sounds, odors, flavors, and physical objects. Possessing these five qualities, a Monk is capable of entering and residing in Right Concentration.

(Reference: AN 5.113)

In this Teaching from Gotama Buddha, he shares how a Practitioner’s mind will need to be developed to be unaffected by forms, sounds, odors, flavors, and physical objects to experience Right Concentration or the Jhānas.

The mind needs to be distant from “sensual desire”, or in other words, have diminished its craving/desire/attachment for seeing agreeable forms through the eyes, hearing agreeable sounds through the ears, smelling agreeable odors through the nose, tasting agreeable flavors through the tongue, and touching agreeable physical objects through the body.

A Practitioner is unable to experience Right Concentration (i.e. experience the Jhānas) if the mind “cannot patiently endure” forms, sounds, odors, flavors, and physical objects.