Saṃyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
35. Saḷāyatana Saṃyutta
§ IV: Paññāsaka Catuttha
3. Samudda 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
§ IV: The 'Fourth Fifty' Suttas
3. The Chapter on the Ocean
Sutta 195
Paṭhama Hattha-Pād'Upamā Suttaṃ
The Simile of Hand and Foot (1)[1]
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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The Exalted One once addressed the brethren, saying:
"Brethren."
"Lord," responded those brethren to the Exalted One.
The Exalted One thus spake:
"Where there is a hand, Brethren,
there are seen
taking up and putting down.[2]
Where there is a foot,
there are seen,
coming and going.
Where is a limb,
there are seen
bending in and stretching out.
Where there is belly,
there hunger and thirst are seen.
§
Just so, Brethren, where is eye,
there arises
owing to eye-contact
one's personal weal and woe.
Where is ear,
there arises
owing to ear-contact
one's personal weal and woe.
Where isnose,
there arises
owing to nose-contact
one's personal weal and woe.
Where is tongue,
there arises
owing to tongue-contact
one's personal weal and woe.
Where is body,
there arises
owing to body-contact
one's personal weal and woe.
Where is mind,
there arises
owing to mind-contact
one's personal weal and woe.
§
Where the hand is not,
no taking up or laying down is seen.
Where the foot is not,
no coming or going is seen.
Where a limb is not,
no bending in or stretching out is seen.
Where belly is not,
there no hunger or thirst is seen.
§
Just so, Brethren, where eye is not,
no personal weal or woe arises
owing to eye-contact.
Where is ear is not,
no personal weal or woe arises
owing to ear-contact.
Where nose is not,
no personal weal or woe arises
owing to nose-contact.
Where tongue is not,
no personal weal or woe arises
owing to tongue-contact.
Where body is not,
no personal weal or woe arises
owing to body-contact.
Where mind, is not,
no personal weal or woe arises
owing to mind-contact.
[1] Buddh. Psych., p. 84.
[2] Hatthe-su, etc. Not dat. plur. but hatthe, sing, with expletive su. Comy. takes it as hatthe su, vijjamānesu.
