Saṁyutta Nikāya — Discursos Conectados — 35.62 — The Depletion of All Fuel for Grasping (2nd)

1“Mendicants, I will teach you the principle for depleting all fuel for grasping. Listen …

2And what is the principle for depleting all fuel for grasping?

3What do you think, mendicants? Is the eye permanent or impermanent?”

4“Impermanent, sir.”

5“But if it’s impermanent, is it suffering or happiness?”

6“Suffering, sir.”

7“But if it’s impermanent, suffering, and perishable, is it fit to be regarded thus: ‘This is mine, I am this, this is my self’?”

8“No, sir.”

9“Sights … eye consciousness … eye contact …

11The pleasant, painful, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on eye contact: is that permanent or impermanent?”

12“Impermanent, sir.” …

13“Ear … nose … tongue … body … mind … ideas … mind consciousness … mind contact … The pleasant, painful, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on mind contact: is that permanent or impermanent?”

14“Impermanent, sir.”

15“But if it’s impermanent, is it suffering or happiness?”

16“Suffering, sir.”

17“But if it’s impermanent, suffering, and perishable, is it fit to be regarded thus: ‘This is mine, I am this, this is my self’?”

18“No, sir.”

19“Seeing this, a learned noble disciple grows disillusioned with the eye, sights, eye consciousness, and eye contact. And they grow disillusioned with the painful, pleasant, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on eye contact.

20They grow disillusioned with the ear … nose … tongue … body …

21They grow disillusioned with the mind, ideas, mind consciousness, and mind contact. And they grow disillusioned with the painful, pleasant, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on mind contact. Being disillusioned, desire fades away. When desire fades away they’re freed. When they’re freed, they know they’re freed.

22They understand: ‘Rebirth is ended, the spiritual journey has been completed, what had to be done has been done, there is nothing further for this place.’

23This is the principle for depleting all fuel for grasping.”