Saṃyutta Nikāya
3. Khandha Vagga
22. Khandha Saṃyutta
11. Anta Vagga
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
3. The Book Called the Khandhā-Vagga
Containing Kindred Sayings on the Elements of Sensory Existence and other Subjects
22. Kindred Sayings on Elements
11. On Separates
Sutta 105
Sakkāya Suttaṃ
The Person-pack
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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[1] Thus have I heard:
The Exalted One was once staying near Sāvatthī
at the Jeta Grove in Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.
And there the Exalted One addressed the brethren, saying:
"Brethren!"
"Master!" responded those brethren.
The Exalted One said:
"I will teach you, brethren,
the person-pack,
the arising of the person-pack,
the ceasing of the person-pack,
the way to the ceasing of the person-pack.
Do ye listen to it.
And what, brethren, is the person-pack?
It is the five groups based on grasping.
What five?
The group based on body-grasping,
that based on feeling-grasping,
on perception-grasping,
on the activities-grasping,
on consciousness-grasping.
This, brethren, is called the person-pack.
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And what, brethren, is the arising of the person-pack?
Just that craving which,
accompanied by lure and lust,
leads down to rebirth,
to wit:
The craving for feeling,
the craving for rebirth,
the craving for no rebirth.
This, brethren, is called
the arising of the person-pack.
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And what, brethren, is the ceasing
of the person-pack?
It is the utter passionless ceasing,
the giving up,
the abandonment of,
the release from,
the freedom from
attachment to,
that craving.
This, brethren, is called
the ceasing of the person-pack.
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And what, brethren,
is the way going to
the ceasing of the person-pack?
It is this Ariyan Eightfold Path, to wit:
Right view,
right aims,
right speech,
right action,
right living,
right effort,
right mindfulness,
right concentration.
This, brethren, is called
the way going to the ceasing of the person-pack."
