sn.35.19 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)

Taking Pleasure (Interior)

“Mendicants, if you take pleasure in the eye, you take pleasure in suffering.
If you take pleasure in suffering, I say you’re not exempt from suffering.
If you take pleasure in the ear …
nose …
tongue …

body …
mind, you take pleasure in suffering.
If you take pleasure in suffering, I say you’re not exempt from suffering.
If you don’t take pleasure in the eye, you don’t take pleasure in suffering.
If you don’t take pleasure in suffering, I say you’re exempt from suffering.
If you don’t take pleasure in the ear …
nose …
tongue …

body …
mind, you don’t take pleasure in suffering.
If you don’t take pleasure in suffering, I say you’re exempt from suffering.”