8.
The Discourse on Fully Understanding the Internal Sense Bases
111.
Monks, without directly knowing and fully understanding the eye, without becoming dispassionate towards it and abandoning it, one is incapable of eliminating suffering.
The ear ...
the nose ...
The tongue ...
The body ...
Without directly knowing and fully understanding the mind, without becoming dispassionate towards it and abandoning it, one is incapable of eliminating suffering.
But, monks, by directly knowing and fully understanding the eye, by becoming dispassionate towards it and abandoning it, one is capable of eliminating suffering. ...
The tongue ...
The body ...
By directly knowing and fully understanding the mind, by becoming dispassionate towards it and abandoning it, one is capable of eliminating suffering."
The eighth.