The uninterrupted Samādhi
To come out of samādhi is to pollute the mind. He/ she can move from one level of samādhi to another, but he/ she has to remain at least in the first jhāna. In the first jhāna, it is possible to think and reason out and even discuss the Dhamma, but not be engaged in emotional thoughts. This fact is indicated in the fifth verse in the Ratana Sutta: “The Buddha has greatly extolled the uninterrupted Samādhi, which is equal to no other” (yambuddhasetto parivannayi suciηsamādhimanantarikaññamahu samādhina tena samona vijjatthi...).
When we say that the emancipator can never be out of samādhi, a question may arise: “Does it mean that the emancipator is always in the experiential mode?” The answer is “no.”
Although the attention is withdrawn from the existential paradigm during the paradigm shift (Nirodhasamāpatti), it does not mean that the paradigm of existence is given up forever. When it becomes necessary to communicate with ordinary people, the Awakened One returns to the existential paradigm for that purpose, and goes back again to the experiential paradigm. These two modes can be changed from time to time, and are seen as two kinds of Nibbāna: