10.
The Second Discourse on the Exhaustion of All Clinging
62.
"I will expound to you, monks, the Teaching for the exhaustion of all clinging.
Listen to that.
And what, monks, is the teaching for the exhaustion of all clinging?"
"What do you think, monks, is the eye permanent or impermanent?"
"Impermanent, venerable sir."
"But what is impermanent, is that suffering or happiness?"
"Suffering, venerable sir."
"But what is impermanent, suffering, subject to change, is it proper to regard that - 'This is mine, this I am, this is my self'?"
"No, Venerable Sir."
"Forms... etc. Is eye-consciousness permanent or impermanent?"
"Impermanent, venerable sir." Etc.
"Is eye-contact permanent or impermanent?"
"Impermanent, venerable sir." Etc.
"Whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant - is that too permanent or impermanent?"
"Impermanent, venerable sir." Etc.
"The ear... the nose... The tongue... The body... The mind... Mental phenomena... Mind-consciousness... Mind-contact... Whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant - is that too permanent or impermanent?"
"Impermanent, venerable sir."
"But what is impermanent, is that suffering or happiness?"
"Suffering, venerable sir."
"But what is impermanent, suffering, subject to change, is it proper to regard that - 'This is mine, this I am, this is my self'?"
"No, Venerable Sir."
"Seeing thus, monks, a learned noble disciple becomes disenchanted with the eye, becomes disenchanted with forms, becomes disenchanted with eye-consciousness, becomes disenchanted with eye-contact. He becomes disenchanted with whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant. Etc. He becomes disenchanted with the tongue, becomes disenchanted with flavours, becomes disenchanted with tongue-consciousness, becomes disenchanted with tongue-contact, whatever feeling arises with tongue-contact as condition, etc. He becomes disenchanted with the mind, becomes disenchanted with mental phenomena, becomes disenchanted with mind-consciousness, becomes disenchanted with mind-contact. He becomes disenchanted with whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant. Being disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate; through dispassion, he becomes liberated; when liberated, there is the knowledge: 'Liberated.' He understands: 'Birth is eliminated, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more coming back to any state of being.' This, monks, is the teaching for the exhaustion of all clinging." The tenth.