Kassakasuttaṃ [SN 4.19, PTS 1.115–1.116]

9.

The Discourse on the Farmer

155. At Sāvatthī. Now at that time the Blessed One was instructing, encouraging, inspiring, and gladdening the monks with a talk on the Teaching connected with Nibbāna. And those monks, having given attention, having reflected, having collected together with the whole mind, listen to the Teaching with ears inclined.

Then this occurred to Māra the Evil One: "This ascetic Gotama is instructing, encouraging, inspiring, and gladdening the monks with a talk on the Teaching connected with Nibbāna... etc. What if I were to approach the ascetic Gotama for the purpose of blinding their vision." Then Māra the Evil One, having created the appearance of a farmer, having placed a great plough on his shoulder, having taken a long goad-stick, with dishevelled hair, clothed in hempen cloth, with feet smeared with mud, approached the Blessed One; having approached, he said this to the Blessed One - "Have you, ascetic, seen my oxen?" "But what have you to do with oxen, Evil One?" "Mine alone, ascetic, is the eye, mine are forms, mine is the sense base of eye-contact-consciousness. Where, ascetic, having gone, will you escape from me? Mine alone, ascetic, is the ear, mine are sounds... etc. mine alone, ascetic, is the nose, mine are odours; mine alone, ascetic, is the tongue, mine are flavours; mine alone, ascetic, is the body, mine are tangible objects; mine alone, ascetic, is the mind, mine are mental phenomena, mine is the sense base of mind-contact-consciousness. Where, ascetic, having gone, will you escape from me?"

"Yours alone, Evil One, is the eye, yours are forms, yours is the sense base of eye-contact-consciousness. But where, Evil One, there is no eye, there are no forms, there is no sense base of eye-contact-consciousness, there is no access for you there, Evil One. Yours alone, Evil One, is the ear, yours are sounds, yours is the sense base of ear-contact-consciousness. But where, Evil One, there is no ear, there are no sounds, there is no sense base of ear-contact-consciousness, there is no access for you there, Evil One. Yours alone, Evil One, is the nose, yours are odours, yours is the sense base of nose-contact-consciousness. But where, Evil One, there is no nose, there are no odours, there is no sense base of nose-contact-consciousness, there is no access for you there, Evil One. Yours alone, Evil One, is the tongue, yours are flavours, yours is the sense base of tongue-contact-consciousness... etc. yours alone, Evil One, is the body, yours are tangible objects, yours is the sense base of body-contact-consciousness... etc. yours alone, Evil One, is the mind, yours are mental phenomena, yours is the sense base of mind-contact-consciousness. But where, Evil One, there is no mind, there are no mental phenomena, there is no sense base of mind-contact-consciousness, there is no access for you there, Evil One."

Then Māra the Evil One, etc. disappeared right there.