Saṁyutta Nikāya — Discursos Conectados — 22.94 — Flowers

1At Sāvatthī.

2“Mendicants, I do not dispute with the world; it is the world that disputes with me. When your speech is in line with the teaching you do not dispute with anyone in the world. What the astute deem as not existing, I too say does not exist. What the astute deem as existing, I too say exists.

3And what do the astute deem as not existing, which I too say does not exist? Form that is permanent, everlasting, eternal, and imperishable.

4Feeling …

5Perception …

6Choices …

7Consciousness that is permanent, everlasting, eternal, and imperishable. This is what the astute deem as not existing, which I too say does not exist.

8And what do the astute deem as existing, which I too say exists? Form that is impermanent, suffering, and perishable.

9Feeling … Perception … Choices …

10Consciousness that is impermanent, suffering, and perishable. This is what the astute deem as existing, which I too say exists.

11There is a worldly phenomenon in the world that the Realized One understands and comprehends. Then he explains, teaches, asserts, establishes, clarifies, analyzes, and discloses it.

12And what is that worldly phenomenon in the world? Form is a worldly phenomenon in the world that the Realized One understands and comprehends. Then he explains, teaches, asserts, establishes, clarifies, analyzes, and discloses it.

13This being so, what can I do about a foolish ordinary person, blind and sightless, who does not know or see?

14Feeling …

15Perception …

16Choices …

17Consciousness is a worldly phenomenon in the world that the Realized One understands and comprehends. Then he explains, teaches, asserts, establishes, clarifies, analyzes, and discloses it.

18This being so, what can I do about a foolish ordinary person, blind and sightless, who does not know or see?

19Suppose there was a blue water lily, or a pink or white lotus. Though it sprouted and grew in the water, it would rise up above the water and stand with no water clinging to it. In the same way, though I was born and grew up in the world, I live having mastered the world, unsullied by the world.”