Saṁyutta Nikāya:
III. Khandha Vagga:
22: Khandha Saṁyutta
4. Natumhāka Vagga

Part III: The Book Called The Khandhā-Vagga
Containing Kindred Sayings
on the Elements of Sensory Existence
and Other Subjects
Chapter XXII: Kindred Sayings on Elements (Khandhā)

Section 4: On Not Yours

Sutta 33

Paṭhama Natumhāka Suttaṁ

Not Yours (1)1

 

[33] [31]

Thus have I heard:—

The Exalted One was staying at Sāvatthī.

The Exalted One said:

"What is not of you, brethren, put it away. Putting it away will be for your profit and welfare.

[32] And what, brethren, is not of you?

Body, brethren, is not of you.

Put it away.

Putting it away
will be for your profit and welfare.

Feeling, brethren, is not of you.

Put it away.

Putting it away
will be for your profit and welfare.

Perception, brethren, is not of you.

Put it away.

Putting it away
will be for your profit and welfare.

The activities, brethren, are not of you.

Put them away.

Putting them away
will be for your profit and welfare.

Consciousness, brethren, is not of you.

Put it away.

Putting it away
will be for your profit and welfare.

Just as if, brethren,
a man should gather,
burn,
or do what he please
with all the grass,
all the sticks,
branches
and stalks
in this Jeta Grove, -
pray would ye say:

'This man is gathering, burning us,
doing what he please with us?'"

"Surely not, lord.

Why so?

Because, lord, this is not our self, nor of the nature of self."

"Even so, brethren, body is not of you.

Put it away.

Putting it away
will be for your profit and welfare.

Feeling, brethren, is not of you.

Put it away.

Putting it away
will be for your profit and welfare.

Perception, brethren, is not of you.

Put it away.

Putting it away
will be for your profit and welfare.

The activities, brethren, are not of you.

Put them away.

Putting them away
will be for your profit and welfare.

Consciousness, brethren, is not of you.

Put it away.

Putting it away
will be for your profit and welfare.2

 

1 Upasamo. Not literally 'rest.'

2 On the inference that there is here implied a self who is not body or mind, see Mrs. Rhys Davids, Bud. Psy., 2nd ed., p. 284.