Saṃyutta Nikāya
IV. Saḷāyatana Vagga
35: Saḷāyatana Saṃyutta
Paññāsako Dutiyo
5. Saḷa Vagga
Sutta 101
Paṭhama Na Tumhāka Suttaṃ
Not Yours
Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
Provenance, terms and conditons
[1][pts] "Monks, whatever's not yours:
Let go of it.
Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness and benefit.
And what is not yours?
"The eye isn't yours:
Let go of it.
Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness and benefit.
Forms are not yours...
Eye-consciousness isn't yours...
Eye-contact isn't yours...
Whatever arises in dependence on eye-contact—experienced either as pleasure, as pain, or as neither-pleasure-nor-pain—that too isn't yours:
Let go of it.
Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness and benefit.
"The ear isn't yours:
Let go of it...
"The nose isn't yours:
Let go of it...
"The tongue isn't yours:
Let go of it...
"The body's not yours:
Let go of it...
"The intellect's not yours:
Let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness and benefit.
Ideas are not yours...
Intellect-consciousness isn't yours...
Intellect-contact isn't yours...
Whatever arises in dependence on intellect-contact—experienced either as pleasure, as pain, or as neither-pleasure-nor-pain—that too isn't yours:
Let go of it.
Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness and benefit.
"Suppose a person were to gather or burn or do as he likes with the grass, twigs, branches, and leaves here in Jeta's Grove.
Would the thought occur to you, 'It's us that this person is gathering, burning, or doing with as he likes'?"
"No, lord.
Why is that?
Because those things are not our self nor do they pertain to our self."
"In the same way, monks, the eye isn't yours:
Let go of it.
Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness and benefit...
The ear...
The nose...
The tongue...
The body...
The intellect's not yours:
Let go of it.
Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness and benefit...
Whatever arises in dependence on intellect-contact—experienced either as pleasure, as pain, or as neither-pleasure-nor-pain—that too isn't yours:
Let go of it.
Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness and benefit."
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