Difference between revisions of "Na Tumhaka Sutta"
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"Whatever is not yours: let go of it. Your [[letting go]] of it will be for your long-term [[happiness]] & [[benefit]]. And what is not yours? | "Whatever is not yours: let go of it. Your [[letting go]] of it will be for your long-term [[happiness]] & [[benefit]]. And what is not yours? | ||
| − | "The [[eye]] is not yours: let go of it. Your [[letting go]] of it will be for your long-term [[happiness]] & [[benefit]]. [[Forms]] are not yours... [[Eye-consciousness]] is not yours... Eye-contact is not yours... Whatever arises in [[dependence]] on eye-contact, [[experienced]] either as [[pleasure]], as [[pain]], or as neither-pleasure-nor-pain, that too is not yours: let go of it. Your [[letting go]] of it will be for your long-term [[happiness]] & [[benefit]]. | + | "The [[eye]] is not yours: let go of it. Your [[letting go]] of it will be for your long-term [[happiness]] & [[benefit]]. [[Forms]] are not yours... [[Eye-consciousness]] is not yours... [[Eye-contact]] is not yours... Whatever arises in [[dependence]] on [[eye-contact]], [[experienced]] either as [[pleasure]], as [[pain]], or as neither-pleasure-nor-pain, that too is not yours: let go of it. Your [[letting go]] of it will be for your long-term [[happiness]] & [[benefit]]. |
"The {{Wiki|ear}} is not yours: let go of it... | "The {{Wiki|ear}} is not yours: let go of it... | ||
Latest revision as of 07:27, 9 March 2015
Na Tumhaka Sutta: Not Yours
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
"Whatever is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit. And what is not yours?
"The eye is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit. Forms are not yours... Eye-consciousness is not yours... Eye-contact is not yours... Whatever arises in dependence on eye-contact, experienced either as pleasure, as pain, or as neither-pleasure-nor-pain, that too is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit.
"The ear is not yours: let go of it...
"The nose is not yours: let go of it...
"The tongue is not yours: let go of it...
"The body is not yours: let go of it...
"The intellect is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit. Ideas are not yours... Intellect-consciousness is not yours... Intellect-contact is not yours... Whatever arises in dependence on intellect-contact, experienced either as pleasure, as pain, or as neither-pleasure-nor-pain, that too is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit.
"Suppose a person were to gather or burn or do as he likes with the grass, twigs, branches, & leaves here in Jeta's Grove. Would the thought occur to you, 'It's us that this person is gathering, burning, or doing with as he likes'?"
"No, lord. Why is that? Because those things are not our self nor do they pertain to our self."
"In the same way, monks, the eye is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit... The ear... The nose... The tongue... The body... The intellect is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit... Whatever arises in dependence on intellect-contact, experienced either as pleasure, as pain, or as neither-pleasure-nor-pain, that too is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit."
