sn.35.91 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)

Being Stirred (2)

“Bhikkhus, being stirred is a disease, being stirred is a tumour, being stirred is a dart. Therefore, bhikkhus, the Tathagata dwells unstirred, with the dart removed. Therefore, bhikkhus, if a bhikkhu should wish, ‘May I dwell unstirred, with the dart removed!’ he should not conceive the eye … forms … eye-consciousness … eye-contact … and as to whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition … he should not conceive that, should not conceive in that, should not conceive from that, should not conceive, ‘That is mine.’ For whatever one conceives, bhikkhus, whatever one conceives in, whatever one conceives from, whatever one conceives as ‘mine’—that is otherwise. The world, becoming otherwise, attached to existence, seeks delight only in existence.

“He should not conceive the ear … He should not conceive the mind … mental phenomena … mind-consciousness … mind-contact … and as to whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition … he should not conceive that, should not conceive in that, should not conceive from that, should not conceive, ‘That is mine.’ For whatever one conceives, bhikkhus, whatever one conceives in, whatever one conceives from, whatever one conceives as ‘mine’—that is otherwise. The world, becoming otherwise, attached to existence, seeks delight only in existence.

“Whatever, bhikkhus, is the extent of the aggregates, the elements, and the sense bases, he does not conceive that, does not conceive in that, does not conceive from that, does not conceive, ‘That is mine.’

“Since he does not conceive anything thus, he does not cling to anything in the world. Not clinging, he is not agitated. Being unagitated, he personally attains Nibbāna. He understands: ‘Destroyed is birth, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more for this state of being.’”

- Translator: Bhikkhu Bodhi

- Editor: Blake Walsh

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Turbulence (2nd)

Now, a mendicant might wish: ‘May I live unperturbed, with dart drawn out.’
“Mendicants, turbulence is a disease, a boil, a dart.
That’s why the Realized One lives unperturbed, with dart drawn out.
So let them not identify with the eye, let them not identify in the eye, let them not identify from the eye, let them not identify: ‘The eye is mine.’
Let them not identify with sights …
eye consciousness …
eye contact …
Let them not identify with the pleasant, painful, or neutral feeling that arises conditioned by eye contact. Let them not identify in that, let them not identify from that, and let them not identify: ‘That is mine.’
For whatever you identify with, whatever you identify in, whatever you identify as, and whatever you identify to be ‘mine’: that becomes something else.
The world is attached to being, taking pleasure only in being, yet it becomes something else.
Let them not identify with the ear … nose … tongue … body …





Let them not identify with the mind …
mind consciousness …
mind contact …
Let them not identify with the pleasant, painful, or neutral feeling that arises conditioned by mind contact. Let them not identify in that, let them not identify as that, and let them not identify: ‘That is mine.’
For whatever you identify with, whatever you identify in, whatever you identify as, and whatever you identify to be ‘mine’: that becomes something else.
The world is attached to being, taking pleasure only in being, yet it becomes something else.
As far as the aggregates, elements, and sense fields extend, they don’t identify with that, they don’t identify in that, they don’t identify as that, and they don’t identify: ‘That is mine.’
Not identifying, they don’t grasp at anything in the world.
Not grasping, they’re not anxious. Not being anxious, they personally become extinguished.
They understand: ‘Rebirth is ended, the spiritual journey has been completed, what had to be done has been done, there is no return to any state of existence.’”