7.
The First Discourse on Craving
90.
"Craving, monks, is a disease, craving is a boil, craving is a dart.
Therefore, monks, the Truth-finder dwells without craving, free from the dart.
Therefore, monks, if a monk should wish 'May I dwell without craving, free from the dart', he should not imagine the eye, should not imagine in the eye, should not imagine from the eye, should not imagine 'the eye is mine';
he should not imagine forms, should not imagine in forms, should not imagine from forms, should not imagine 'forms are mine';
he should not imagine eye-consciousness, should not imagine in eye-consciousness, should not imagine from eye-consciousness, should not imagine 'eye-consciousness is mine';
he should not imagine eye-contact, should not imagine in eye-contact, should not imagine from eye-contact, should not imagine 'eye-contact is mine'.
Whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant - that too he should not imagine, in that too he should not imagine, from that too he should not imagine, he should not imagine 'that is mine'.
"He should not imagine the ear... etc. he should not imagine the nose... etc. he should not imagine the tongue, should not imagine in the tongue, should not imagine from the tongue, should not imagine 'the tongue is mine'; he should not imagine flavours... etc. he should not imagine tongue-consciousness... etc. he should not imagine tongue-contact... etc. Whatever feeling arises with tongue-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant - that too he should not imagine, in that too he should not imagine, from that too he should not imagine, he should not imagine 'that is mine'.
"He should not imagine the body... etc. he should not imagine the mind, should not imagine in the mind, should not imagine from the mind, should not imagine 'the mind is mine'; he should not imagine mental phenomena... etc. mind-consciousness... etc. Mind-contact, etc. Whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant - that too he should not imagine, in that too he should not imagine, from that too he should not imagine, he should not imagine 'that is mine'; he should not imagine all, should not imagine in all, should not imagine from all, should not imagine 'all is mine'.
"He, thus not imagining, does not cling to anything in the world. Not clinging, he is not agitated. Not being agitated, he personally attains final nibbāna. 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.