The Practice Conducive to Uprooting (1st)Paṭhamasamugghātasappāyasutta

“Mendicants, I will teach you the practice that’s conducive to uprooting all conceiving.“Sabbamaññitasamugghātasappāyaṁ vo, bhikkhave, paṭipadaṁ desessāmi. Listen …Taṁ suṇātha.

And what is the practice that’s conducive to uprooting all conceiving?Katamā ca sā, bhikkhave, sabbamaññitasamugghātasappāyā paṭipadā? It’s when a mendicant does not conceive anything to be the eye, does not conceive it in the eye, does not conceive it as the eye, and does not conceive that ‘the eye is mine.’Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu cakkhuṁ na maññati, cakkhusmiṁ na maññati, cakkhuto na maññati, cakkhuṁ meti na maññati. They don’t conceive anything to be sights …Rūpe na maññati …pe… eye consciousness … eye contact. And they don’t conceive anything to be the pleasant, painful, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on eye contact. They don’t conceive it in that, they don’t conceive it as that, and they don’t conceive that ‘that is mine.’cakkhuviññāṇaṁ na maññati, cakkhusamphassaṁ na maññati, yampidaṁ cakkhusamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tampi na maññati, tasmimpi na maññati, tatopi na maññati, taṁ meti na maññati.

For whatever you conceive it to be, whatever you conceive it in, whatever you conceive it as, and whatever you conceive to be ‘mine’: that becomes something else.Yañhi, bhikkhave, maññati, yasmiṁ maññati, yato maññati, yaṁ meti maññati, tato taṁ hoti aññathā. The world is attached to being, taking pleasure only in being, yet it becomes something else.Aññathābhāvī bhavasatto loko bhavamevābhinandati …pe…

They don’t conceive anything to be the ear … nose … tongue …jivhaṁ na maññati, jivhāya na maññati, jivhāto na maññati, jivhā meti na maññati. body …Aññathābhāvī bhavasatto loko bhavamevābhinandati …pe… mind …manaṁ na maññati, manasmiṁ na maññati, manato na maññati, mano meti na maññati. They don’t conceive anything to be the pleasant, painful, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on mind contact. They don’t conceive it in that, they don’t conceive it as that, and they don’t conceive that ‘that is mine.’Yampidaṁ manosamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tampi na maññati, tasmimpi na maññati, tatopi na maññati, taṁ meti na maññati.

For whatever you conceive it to be, whatever you conceive it in, whatever you conceive it as, and whatever you conceive to be ‘mine’: that becomes something else.Yañhi, bhikkhave, maññati, yasmiṁ maññati, yato maññati, yaṁ meti maññati, tato taṁ hoti aññathā. The world is attached to being, taking pleasure only in being, yet it becomes something else.Aññathābhāvī bhavasatto loko bhavamevābhinandati.

As far as the aggregates, elements, and sense fields extend, they don’t conceive anything to be that, they don’t conceive it in that, they don’t conceive it as that, and they don’t conceive that ‘that is mine.’Yāvatā, bhikkhave, khandhadhātuāyatanaṁ tampi na maññati, tasmimpi na maññati, tatopi na maññati, taṁ meti na maññati. Not conceiving, they don’t grasp at anything in the world.So evaṁ amaññamāno na ca kiñci loke upādiyati. Not grasping, they’re not anxious. Not being anxious, they personally become extinguished.Anupādiyaṁ na paritassati. Aparitassaṁ paccattaññeva parinibbāyati.

They 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.’‘Khīṇā jāti, vusitaṁ brahmacariyaṁ, kataṁ karaṇīyaṁ, nāparaṁ itthattāyā’ti pajānāti.

This is the practice that’s conducive to uprooting all conceiving.”Ayaṁ kho sā, bhikkhave, sabbamaññitasamugghātasappāyā paṭipadā”ti.