དེ་དག་ནི་རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ་བརྒྱད་ཅེས་བྱའོ། །
“If you ask what constitute the nine serial steps of meditative absorption, they are as follows: (1) [The first ensues] when one achieves and maintains the first meditative concentration, that is to say, when there is freedom from desires, and freedom from negative and non-virtuous attributes, while ideation and scrutiny are present, alongside the joy and bliss that arise from that freedom.
Meditative absorption, non-apprehension, perfection