- Linked Discourses 35.101Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.101
- 10. The Sixes10. Saḷavagga
It’s Not Yours (1st)Paṭhamanatumhākasutta
“Mendicants, give up what’s not yours.“Yaṁ, bhikkhave, na tumhākaṁ, taṁ pajahatha. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.Taṁ vo pahīnaṁ hitāya sukhāya bhavissati. And what isn’t yours?Kiñca, bhikkhave, na tumhākaṁ?
The eye isn’t yours: give it up.Cakkhu, bhikkhave, na tumhākaṁ. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.Taṁ vo pahīnaṁ hitāya sukhāya bhavissati. Sights …Rūpā na tumhākaṁ. Eye consciousness …Cakkhuviññāṇaṁ na tumhākaṁ. Eye contact …Cakkhusamphasso na tumhākaṁ. The pleasant, painful, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on eye contact isn’t yours: give it up.Yampidaṁ cakkhusamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tampi na tumhākaṁ. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.Taṁ vo pahīnaṁ hitāya sukhāya bhavissati.
The ear … nose … tongue … body …Jivhā na tumhākaṁ.
The mind isn’t yours: give it up.Mano na tumhākaṁ. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.So vo pahīno hitāya sukhāya bhavissati. Ideas …Dhammā na tumhākaṁ. Mind consciousness …Manoviññāṇaṁ na tumhākaṁ. Mind contact …Manosamphasso na tumhākaṁ. The pleasant, painful, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on mind contact isn’t yours: give it up.Yampidaṁ manosamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tampi na tumhākaṁ. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.Taṁ vo pahīnaṁ hitāya sukhāya bhavissati.
Suppose 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.Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, yaṁ imasmiṁ jetavane tiṇakaṭṭhasākhāpalāsaṁ taṁ jano hareyya vā ḍaheyya vā yathāpaccayaṁ vā kareyya, Would you think:api nu tumhākaṁ evamassa: ‘This person is carrying us off, burning us, or doing what they want with us’?”‘amhe jano harati vā ḍahati vā yathāpaccayaṁ vā karotī’”ti?
“No, sir.“No hetaṁ, bhante”. Why is that?“Taṁ kissa hetu”? Because to us that’s neither self nor belonging to self.”“Na hi no etaṁ, bhante, attā vā attaniyaṁ vā”ti.
“In the same way, the eye isn’t yours: give it up.“Evameva kho, bhikkhave, cakkhu na tumhākaṁ. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness. …Taṁ vo pahīnaṁ hitāya sukhāya bhavissati.
The pleasant, painful, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on mind contact isn’t yours: give it up.yampidaṁ manosamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tampi na tumhākaṁ. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.”Taṁ vo pahīnaṁ hitāya sukhāya bhavissatī”ti.