8.
The Second Discourse on Craving
91.
"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...
eye-consciousness...
Eye-contact...
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'.
For, monks, whatever one imagines, in whatever one imagines, from whatever one imagines, whatever one imagines as 'mine', thereby it becomes otherwise.
The world, becoming otherwise, attached to existence, delights only in existence, 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... tongue-consciousness... tongue-contact... 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'. For, monks, whatever one imagines, in whatever one imagines, from whatever one imagines, whatever one imagines as 'mine', thereby it becomes otherwise. The world, becoming otherwise, attached to existence, delights only in existence, 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'... Mind-consciousness... Mind-contact... 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'. For, monks, whatever one imagines, in whatever one imagines, from whatever one imagines, whatever one imagines as 'mine', thereby it becomes otherwise. The world, becoming otherwise, attached to existence, delights only in existence.
As far as, monks, there are aggregates, elements, and sense bases, 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, 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 eighth.