5.
The Discourse on Way of Regarding
47.
At Sāvatthī.
"Whatever ascetics or brahmins, monks, who regarding self in various ways, all of them regard the five aggregates of clinging, or one or other of them.
Which five?
Here, monks, an ignorant worldling, who does not see the noble ones, who is not skilled in the noble teaching, who is undisciplined in the noble teaching, who does not see good persons, who is not skilled in the teaching of good persons, who is undisciplined in the teaching of good persons, regards matter as self, or self as possessing matter;
or matter as in self, or self as in matter.
Feeling...
perception...
activities...
He regards consciousness as self, or self as possessing consciousness;
or consciousness as in self, or self as in consciousness."
"Thus this way of regarding and 'I am' has not departed from him. But when 'I am', monks, has not departed, there is a descent of the five faculties - the eye-faculty, the ear-faculty, the nose-faculty, the tongue-faculty, the body-faculty. There is, monks, mind, there are mental phenomena, there is the ignorance element. For an ignorant worldling, monks, touched by feeling born of contact with ignorance, 'I am' occurs to him; 'I am this' occurs to him; 'I shall be' occurs to him; 'I shall not be' occurs to him; 'I shall be material' occurs to him; 'I shall be formless' occurs to him; 'I shall be percipient' occurs to him; 'I shall be non-percipient' occurs to him; 'I shall be neither percipient nor non-percipient' occurs to him."
"The five faculties, monks, remain right there. But here, for an instructed noble disciple, ignorance is abandoned, true knowledge arises. For him, through the fading away of ignorance, through the arising of true knowledge, 'I am' does not occur to him; 'I am this' does not occur to him; 'I shall be'... 'I shall not be'... material... formless... percipient... non-percipient... 'I shall be neither percipient nor non-percipient' does not occur to him." The fifth.