7.
The Discourse on What Has Come to Be Over Time
29.
Thus have I heard.
On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the Squirrels' Feeding Ground.
There the Blessed One addressed the monks thus:
"The all, monks, is oppressed.
And what, monks, is the all that is oppressed?
The eye, monks, is oppressed, visible forms are oppressed, eye-consciousness is oppressed, eye-contact is oppressed, whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant - that too is oppressed.
Oppressed by what?
'Oppressed by birth, by ageing, by death, by sorrows, by lamentations, by sufferings, by displeasures, by anguishes,' I say. Etc.
The tongue is oppressed, flavours are oppressed, tongue-consciousness is oppressed, tongue-contact is oppressed, whatever feeling arises with tongue-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant - that too is oppressed.
Oppressed by what?
'Oppressed by birth, by ageing, by death, by sorrows, by lamentations, by sufferings, by displeasures, by anguishes,' I say.
The body is oppressed. Etc.
The mind is oppressed, mental phenomena are oppressed, mind-consciousness is oppressed, mind-contact is oppressed, whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant - that too is oppressed.
Oppressed by what?
'Oppressed by birth, by ageing, by death, by sorrows, by lamentations, by sufferings, by displeasures, by anguishes,' I say.
Seeing thus, monks, a learned noble disciple becomes disenchanted with the eye, becomes disenchanted with visible forms, becomes disenchanted with eye-consciousness, becomes disenchanted with eye-contact. Etc.
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.'"
The seventh.