{"id":"sn35.73","title":"Six Fields of Contact (3rd)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn35.73","title":"Six Fields of Contact (3rd)","units":[{"id":"sn35.73:0","sourceIds":["sn35.73:0.1","sn35.73:0.2","sn35.73:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.73\n7. Migajālavagga\nTatiyachaphassāyatanasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 35.73\n7. With Migajāla\nSix Fields of Contact (3rd)"}},{"id":"sn35.73:1","sourceIds":["sn35.73:1.1","sn35.73:1.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yo hi koci, bhikkhave, bhikkhu channaṁ phassāyatanānaṁ samudayañca atthaṅgamañca assādañca ādīnavañca nissaraṇañca yathābhūtaṁ nappajānāti.\nAvusitaṁ tena brahmacariyaṁ, ārakā so imasmā dhammavinayā”ti.","en":"“Mendicants, anyone who doesn’t truly understand the six fields of contact’s origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape\nhas not completed the spiritual journey and is far from this teaching and training.”"}},{"id":"sn35.73:2","sourceIds":["sn35.73:2.1","sn35.73:2.2","sn35.73:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ vutte, aññataro bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“etthāhaṁ, bhante, anassasaṁ panassasaṁ.\nAhañhi, bhante, channaṁ phassāyatanānaṁ samudayañca atthaṅgamañca assādañca ādīnavañca nissaraṇañca yathābhūtaṁ nappajānāmī”ti.","en":"When he said this, one of the mendicants said to the Buddha,\n“Here, sir, I’m discouraged, really discouraged.\nFor I don’t truly understand the six fields of contact’s origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape.”"}},{"id":"sn35.73:3","sourceIds":["sn35.73:3.1","sn35.73:3.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Taṁ kiṁ maññasi, bhikkhu,\ncakkhu niccaṁ vā aniccaṁ vā”ti?","en":"“What do you think, mendicant?\nIs the eye permanent or impermanent?”"}},{"id":"sn35.73:4","sourceIds":["sn35.73:4.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Aniccaṁ, bhante”.","en":"“Impermanent, sir.”"}},{"id":"sn35.73:5","sourceIds":["sn35.73:5.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yaṁ panāniccaṁ dukkhaṁ vā taṁ sukhaṁ vā”ti?","en":"“But if it’s impermanent, is it suffering or happiness?”"}},{"id":"sn35.73:6","sourceIds":["sn35.73:6.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Dukkhaṁ, bhante”.","en":"“Suffering, sir.”"}},{"id":"sn35.73:7","sourceIds":["sn35.73:7.1","sn35.73:7.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yaṁ panāniccaṁ dukkhaṁ vipariṇāmadhammaṁ, kallaṁ nu taṁ samanupassituṁ:\n‘etaṁ mama, esohamasmi, eso me attā’”ti?","en":"“But if it’s impermanent, suffering, and perishable, is it fit to be regarded thus:\n‘This is mine, I am this, this is my self’?”"}},{"id":"sn35.73:8","sourceIds":["sn35.73:8.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“No hetaṁ, bhante”.","en":"“No, sir.”"}},{"id":"sn35.73:9","sourceIds":["sn35.73:9.1","sn35.73:9.2","sn35.73:9.3","sn35.73:9.4","sn35.73:9.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Sotaṁ …\nghānaṁ …\njivhā …\nkāyo …\nmano nicco vā anicco vā”ti?","en":"“Is the ear …\nnose …\ntongue …\nbody …\nmind permanent or impermanent?”"}},{"id":"sn35.73:10","sourceIds":["sn35.73:10.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Anicco, bhante”.","en":"“Impermanent, sir.”"}},{"id":"sn35.73:11","sourceIds":["sn35.73:11.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yaṁ panāniccaṁ dukkhaṁ vā taṁ sukhaṁ vā”ti?","en":"“But if it’s impermanent, is it suffering or happiness?”"}},{"id":"sn35.73:12","sourceIds":["sn35.73:12.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Dukkhaṁ, bhante”.","en":"“Suffering, sir.”"}},{"id":"sn35.73:13","sourceIds":["sn35.73:13.1","sn35.73:13.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yaṁ panāniccaṁ dukkhaṁ vipariṇāmadhammaṁ, kallaṁ nu taṁ samanupassituṁ:\n‘etaṁ mama, esohamasmi, eso me attā’”ti?","en":"“But if it’s impermanent, suffering, and perishable, is it fit to be regarded thus:\n‘This is mine, I am this, this is my self’?”"}},{"id":"sn35.73:14","sourceIds":["sn35.73:14.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“No hetaṁ, bhante”.","en":"“No, sir.”"}},{"id":"sn35.73:15","sourceIds":["sn35.73:15.1","sn35.73:15.2","sn35.73:15.3","sn35.73:15.4","sn35.73:15.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Evaṁ passaṁ, bhikkhu, sutavā ariyasāvako cakkhusmimpi nibbindati, sotasmimpi nibbindati, ghānasmimpi nibbindati, jivhāyapi nibbindati, kāyasmimpi nibbindati, manasmimpi nibbindati.\nNibbindaṁ virajjati; virāgā vimuccati; vimuttasmiṁ vimuttamiti ñāṇaṁ hoti.\n‘Khīṇā jāti, vusitaṁ brahmacariyaṁ, kataṁ karaṇīyaṁ, nāparaṁ itthattāyā’ti pajānātī”ti.\nEkādasamaṁ.\nMigajālavaggo dutiyo.","en":"“Seeing this, a learned noble disciple grows disillusioned with the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind.\nBeing disillusioned, desire fades away. When desire fades away they’re freed. When they’re freed, they know they’re freed.\nThey 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.’”"}},{"id":"sn35.73:16","sourceIds":["sn35.73:16.0","sn35.73:16.1","sn35.73:16.2","sn35.73:16.3","sn35.73:16.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nMigajālena dve vuttā,\nCattāro ca samiddhinā;\nUpaseno upavāṇo,\nChaphassāyatanikā tayoti."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.73/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."}