Saṁyutta Nikāya — Discursos Conectados — 35.150 — A Practice Conducive to Extinguishment

1“Mendicants, I will teach you a practice that’s conducive to extinguishment. Listen …

2And what is that practice that’s conducive to extinguishment?

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“Are sights … eye consciousness … eye contact …

10The pleasant, painful, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on mind contact: is that permanent or impermanent?”

11“Impermanent, sir.”

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

13“Suffering, sir.”

14“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’?”

15“No, sir.”

16“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.

17They grow disillusioned with the ear … nose … tongue … body … mind … painful, pleasant, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on mind contact. Being disillusioned, desire fades away. When desire fades away they’re freed. …

18They understand: ‘… there is nothing further for this place.’

19This is that practice that’s conducive to extinguishment.”