Saṃyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
35. Saḷāyatana Saṃyutta
§ III: Paññāsaka Tatiya
5. Nava-Purāṇa Vagga
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
4. The Book Called the Saḷāyatana-Vagga
Containing Kindred Sayings on the 'Six-Fold Sphere' of Sense and Other Subjects
35. Kindred Sayings the Sixfold Sphere of Sense
§ III: The 'Third Fifty' Suttas
5. The Chapter on 'New and Old'
Sutta 148
Tatiya Sappāya Suttaṃ
Helpful (iii)
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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Once the Exalted One addressed the brethren, saying:
"Brethren."
"Lord," responded those brethren to the Exalted One.
The Exalted One thus spake:
"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."
