2.
The Second Discourse on the Uninstructed
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He was dwelling at Sāvatthī, etc.
"An ignorant worldling, monks, might become disenchanted with this body made of the four primary elements, might become dispassionate, might become liberated.
What is the reason for this?
There is seen, monks, the accumulation and diminution, the taking up and the laying down of this body made of the four primary elements.
Therefore therein an ignorant worldling might become disenchanted, might become dispassionate, might become liberated.
But that which is called mind, or mentality, or consciousness - therein an ignorant worldling is not able to become disenchanted, not able to become dispassionate, not able to become liberated.
What is the reason for this?
For a long time, monks, this has been clung to, appropriated, and adhered to by the ignorant worldling -
'This is mine, this I am, this is my self.'
Therefore therein an ignorant worldling is not able to become disenchanted, not able to become dispassionate, not able to become liberated."
"It would be better, monks, for an ignorant worldling to approach this body made of the four primary elements as self rather than the mind. What is the reason for this? This body made of the four primary elements is seen lasting for one year, lasting for two years, lasting for three years, lasting for four years, lasting for five years, lasting for ten years, lasting for twenty years, lasting for thirty years, lasting for forty years, lasting for fifty years, lasting for a hundred years, and even longer. But that which is called mind, or mentality, or consciousness - by night and by day one thing arises and another ceases.
"Therein, monks, a learned noble disciple attends wisely to dependent origination itself - 'Thus when this exists, that comes to be; from the arising of this, that arises; when this is absent, that does not exist; from the cessation of this, that ceases.' Dependent on contact experienced as pleasant, monks, a pleasant feeling arises. With the cessation of that very contact experienced as pleasant, whatever feeling arising from that, the pleasant feeling that arose dependent on contact experienced as pleasant, that ceases, that is appeased. Dependent on contact experienced as unpleasant, monks, an unpleasant feeling arises. With the cessation of that very contact experienced as unpleasant, whatever feeling arising from that, the unpleasant feeling that arose dependent on contact experienced as unpleasant, that ceases, that is appeased. Dependent on contact experienced as neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant, monks, a neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant feeling arises. With the cessation of that very contact experienced as neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant, whatever feeling arising from that, the neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant feeling that arose dependent on contact experienced as neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant, that ceases, that is appeased.
"Just as, monks, from the friction and combination of two sticks, heat is produced, fire is generated. From the separation and dispersal of those very two sticks, whatever heat arising from that ceases, that is appeased; so too, monks, dependent on contact experienced as pleasant, a pleasant feeling arises. With the cessation of that very contact experienced as pleasant, whatever feeling arising from that, the pleasant feeling that arose dependent on contact experienced as pleasant, that ceases, that is appeased, etc. Dependent on contact experienced as neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant, a neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant feeling arises. With the cessation of that very contact experienced as neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant, whatever feeling arising from that, the neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant feeling that arose dependent on contact experienced as neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant, that ceases, that is appeased.
"Seeing thus, monks, a learned noble disciple becomes disenchanted with contact, becomes disenchanted with feeling, becomes disenchanted with perception, becomes disenchanted with activities, becomes disenchanted with consciousness; being disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate; through dispassion, he becomes liberated; when liberated, there is the knowledge: 'Liberated.' 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 second.