“Mendicants, there are these five faculties. What five? The faculties of pain, sadness, pleasure, happiness, and equanimity. While a mendicant is meditating—diligent, keen, and resolute—the faculty of pain arises. They understand: ‘The faculty of pain has arisen in me. And that has a basis, a source, a condition, and a reason. It’s not possible that the faculty of pain will arise without a basis, a source, a condition, or a reason.’ They understand the faculty of pain, its origin, its cessation, and where that faculty of pain that’s arisen ceases without remainder. And where does that faculty of pain that’s arisen cease without remainder? It’s when a mendicant, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, enters and remains in the first absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of seclusion, while placing the mind and keeping it connected. That’s where the faculty of pain that’s arisen ceases without remainder. They’re called a mendicant who understands the cessation of the faculty of pain, and who applies their mind to that end.