{"id":"sn35.138","title":"Not Yours (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn35.138","title":"Not Yours (1st)","units":[{"id":"sn35.138:0","sourceIds":["sn35.138:0.1","sn35.138:0.2","sn35.138:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.138\n14. Devadahavagga\nPaṭhamanatumhākasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 35.138\n14. At Devadaha\nNot Yours (1st)"}},{"id":"sn35.138:1","sourceIds":["sn35.138:1.1","sn35.138:1.2","sn35.138:1.3","sn35.138:1.4","sn35.138:1.5","sn35.138:1.6","sn35.138:1.7","sn35.138:1.8","sn35.138:1.9","sn35.138:1.10","sn35.138:1.11","sn35.138:1.12","sn35.138:1.13","sn35.138:1.14","sn35.138:1.15","sn35.138:1.16","sn35.138:1.17","sn35.138:1.18","sn35.138:1.19","sn35.138:1.20","sn35.138:1.21"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yaṁ, bhikkhave, na tumhākaṁ taṁ pajahatha.\nTaṁ vo pahīnaṁ hitāya sukhāya bhavissati.\nKiñca, bhikkhave, na tumhākaṁ?\nCakkhu, bhikkhave, na tumhākaṁ; taṁ pajahatha.\nTaṁ vo pahīnaṁ hitāya sukhāya bhavissati …pe…\njivhā na tumhākaṁ; taṁ pajahatha.\nSā vo pahīnā hitāya sukhāya bhavissati …pe…\nmano na tumhākaṁ; taṁ pajahatha.\nSo vo pahīno hitāya sukhāya bhavissati.\nSeyyathāpi, bhikkhave, yaṁ imasmiṁ jetavane tiṇakaṭṭhasākhāpalāsaṁ taṁ jano hareyya vā ḍaheyya vā yathāpaccayaṁ vā kareyya, api nu tumhākaṁ evamassa:\n‘amhe jano harati vā ḍahati vā yathāpaccayaṁ vā karotī’”ti?\n“No hetaṁ, bhante”.\n“Taṁ kissa hetu”?\n“Na hi no etaṁ, bhante, attā vā attaniyaṁ vā”ti.\n“Evameva kho, bhikkhave, cakkhu na tumhākaṁ; taṁ pajahatha.\nTaṁ vo pahīnaṁ hitāya sukhāya bhavissati …pe…\njivhā na tumhākaṁ; taṁ pajahatha.\nSā vo pahīnā hitāya sukhāya bhavissati …pe…\nmano na tumhākaṁ; taṁ pajahatha.\nSo vo pahīno hitāya sukhāya bhavissatī”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"“Mendicants, give up what’s not yours.\nGiving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.\nAnd what isn’t yours?\nThe eye isn’t yours: give it up.\nGiving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.\nThe ear … nose … tongue … body …\nmind isn’t yours: give it up.\nGiving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.\nSuppose 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:\n‘This person is carrying us off, burning us, or doing what they want with us’?”\n“No, sir.\nWhy is that?\nBecause  to us that’s neither self nor belonging to self.”\n“In the same way, the eye isn’t yours: give it up.\nGiving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.\nThe ear … nose … tongue … body …\nmind isn’t yours: give it up.\nGiving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.138/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}