Searching for “sammā samād” and sammāsamād" (no space between two words) in DPR, I came across around 400 reference. By far most of them are just enumerating the list of the 8aam (noble eightfold path).
The only references I could find that actually define right concentration with the STED 4j (standard EBT definition of 4 jhanas), are:
mn 10, dn 22, mn 141, sn 45.8
It was a long search list, and I spent many hours looking through it, but I can’t guarantee I made no mistakes or misses.
The overall goal of the search, was to try to find an answer to the interesting discussion thread recently, to which I’ve not responded yet, on what samma samadhi actually is. I’ll share my findings after I research more, but for now I want to know if anyone knows any other references besides the 4 above that define samma samadhi = 4j.
And when you look at the 4 references carefully, I’d really only say one of them is legitimate. SN 45.8.
MN 141 is spoken by sariputta in an early abhidhamma style, and this whole sutta is added into DN 22 (maha satipatthana sutta). In other words, DN 22 is pretty much just MN 10 (satipatthana sutta) with MN 141 jammed in there under dhamma anupassana.
And since DPR is using the burmese canon, the burmese in the 6th council changed MN 10, and replace it with DN 22! (I learned that in B.Sujato’s history of mindfulness).
So really only SN 45.8 defines samma samadhi as the STED 4j formula.
By this I’m not trying to show that samma samādhi is not 4j, or does not include 4j, but what I suspect is the Buddha never explicitly defined it like SN 45.8, he left it up to people to infer what it means from the collection of teachings.