Friends:

The Five Criteria for Evaluation of Right Concentration:

After emerging from the deepest states so far attained one reviews it thus:

1: This absorption is Happy now, and results in future happiness too...
2: This absorption is Noble, and unrivaled by anything in this world...
3: This absorption is not reached by inferior or unworthy persons...
4: This absorption is entered upon & emerged from by me fully aware...
5: This absorption is perfectly Calm, Stilled, Unified, and neither
    fabricated, suppressible, reversible nor deniable...

Source: The Exhaustive Speeches by the Buddha. Digha Nikāya 34
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25103
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/digha/index.html

 

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Updated: 14 July 2009 http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Samma-Samadhi.htm