Saṁyutta Nikāya
IV. Saḷāyatana Vagga
35: Saḷāyatana Saṁyutta
Paññāsaka Tatiya
5. Navapurāṇa Vagga

IV. Kindred Sayings on the 'Six-Fold Sphere' of Sense and Other Subjects
35: Kindred Sayings the Sixfold Sphere of Sense The 'Third Fifty' Suttas
5. The Chapter on 'New and Old'

Sutta 148

Tatiya Sappāya Suttaṁ

Helpful (iii)

 

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Thus have I heard:

Once the Exalted One addressed the brethren, saying:

"Brethren."

"Lord," responded those brethren to the Exalted One.

The Exalted One thus spoke:

"I will teach you, Brethren,
a way that is helpful for Nibbāna.

Do ye listen to it.

And what, Brethren, is that way?

Herein, Brethren, a brother
regards the eye as without the self.

He regards objects as without the self.

He regards eye-consciousness as without the self.

He regards eye-contact, as without the self.

That weal or woe or neutral state experienced, which arises by eye-contact, -
that also he regards as without the self.

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He regards the ear as without the self.

He regards sounds as without the self.

He regards ear-consciousness as without the self.

He regards ear-contact, as without the self.

That weal or woe or neutral state experienced, which arises by ear-contact, -
that also he regards as without the self.

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He regards the nose as without the self.

He regards scents as without the self.

He regards nose-consciousness as without the self.

He regards nose-contact, as without the self.

That weal or woe or neutral state experienced, which arises by nose-contact, -
that also he regards as without the self.

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He regards the tongue as without the self.

He regards savours as without the self.

He regards tongue-consciousness as without the self.

He regards tongue-contact, as without the self.

That weal or woe or neutral state experienced, which arises by tongue-contact, -
that also he regards as without the self.

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He regards the body as without the self.

He regards tangibles as without the self.

He regards body-consciousness as without the self.

He regards body-contact, as without the self.

That weal or woe or neutral state experienced, which arises by body-contact, -
that also he regards as without the self.

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He regards the mind as without the self.

He regards mind-states as without the self.

He regards mind-consciousness as without the self.

He regards mind-contact, as without the self.

That weal or woe or neutral state experienced, which arises by mind-contact, -
that also he regards as without the self.

This, Brethren, is the way that is helpful for Nibbāna.