Saṁyutta Nikāya — Discursos Conectados — 35.101 — It’s Not Yours (1st)

1“Mendicants, give up what’s not yours. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness. And what isn’t yours?

2The eye isn’t yours: give it up. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness. Sights … Eye consciousness … Eye contact … The pleasant, painful, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on eye contact isn’t yours: give it up. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.

3The ear … nose … tongue … body …

4The mind isn’t yours: give it up. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness. Ideas … Mind consciousness … Mind contact … The pleasant, painful, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on mind contact isn’t yours: give it up. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.

5Suppose a person was to carry off the grass, sticks, branches, and leaves in this Jeta’s Grove, or burn them, or do what they want with them. Would you think: ‘This person is carrying us off, burning us, or doing what they want with us’?”

6“No, sir. Why is that? Because to us that’s neither self nor belonging to self.”

7“In the same way, the eye isn’t yours: give it up. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness. …

8The pleasant, painful, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on mind contact isn’t yours: give it up. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.”