# The Buddha's Turning Point: sources and rendering note

An original study episode on MN36, not a complete translation or a substitute for specialist scholarship. Own rendering made for study, checked against existing translations. Original English wording, commentary and narration CC0 1.0 Universal; existing translations consulted retain their own rights.

## Textual base
Pali MN36, Mahasaccakasutta, Mahasangiti edition distributed by SuttaCentral. Selected excerpts:30.6;31.2-3;31.5;32.2;32.4. Formulas of the four jhanas and three knowledges are explicitly summarized rather than represented as complete translated quotations.

## Accuracy checks and further reading
- Thanissaro Bhikkhu, MN36: https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN36.html
- Bhikkhu Bodhi, attributed MN36 text prepared for SuttaCentral by Blake Walsh: https://suttacentral.express/mn36/en/bodhi
- Bhikkhu Sujato, discussion of vitakka: https://sujato.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/why-vitakka-doesnt-mean-thinking-in-jhana/
- Visuddhimagga, Nanamoli translation, chapterIV: https://edhamma.github.io/vism/sphinx/build/html/ch-04.html
- Leigh Brasington, authorized practical excerpt: https://www.lionsroar.com/entering-the-jhanas/

## Limits
Vitakka/vicara are retained in the selected rendered passage because their meditative sense is disputed. Kayena and sampasadana also admit interpretive choices. The episode does not claim that MN36 proves a modern teacher's exact entry technique, or settles all questions about depth and bodily awareness. The childhood memory has no added precise age, festival, duration or claim of effortless attainment.

The last question about endurance is a rhetorical contrast in the commentary, not a translated saying. Forced breathlessness and starvation describe failed austerities, not instructions. No attainment or extraordinary knowledge is certified by this recording.