Cessation

1-6. Sāvatthi. ... re ...

Venerable Ānanda saw venerable Sāriputta approaching in the distance and said to him: “Friend Sāriputta, your mental faculties are clear, your face seems clear. In what abiding did you spend the day?”

7-8. “Here, friend, I overcame all the sphere of neither perception nor non perception and abode in the cessation of perceptions and feelings. Yet, friend, it did not occur to me, `I abode in the cessation of perceptions and feelings, or got up from it'.”

“Friend Sāriputta, since long your latent tendency of measuring conceitedly has been completely destroyed, therefore it did not occur to you, `I abode in the cessation of perceptions and feelings, or got up from it'.”