Very misleading translation of DN 33 on Suttacentral

[sujato]

Thanks for this detailed argument, you make some great points.

@Senryu

I seem to remember a or more than one sutta which does seem to say that the Buddha did discover jhāna. Anyone have the reference?

Sometimes SN 2.7 (included in AN 9.42) is quoted to give this idea, but it is a mistake. This was discussed in an earlier thread:

How to translate: eko'haṃ jhāyaṃ sukham-anu-bodhiṃ, (SN 4.25, AN 10.26)

Yes, I also don’t know. Anubodha is quite commonly used in the simple sense of “understand, wake up to”, as for example: There are other principles—deep, hard to see, hard to understand (duranubodha), peaceful, sublime, beyond the scope of reason, subtle, comprehensible to the astute—which the Realized One makes known after realizing them with his own insight. It doesn’t mean “discover” in the sense of being the first person to find out about something. No, here bodhi is not the noun “awa…