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Saɱyutta Nikāya
3. Khandha Vagga
22. Khandha Saɱyutta
11. Anta Vagga

The Book of the Kindred Sayings
3. The Book Called the Khandhā-Vagga
Containing Kindred Sayings on the Elements of Sensory Existence and other Subjects
22. Kindred Sayings on Elements
11. On Separates

Sutta 105

Sakkāya Suttaɱ

The Person-pack

Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids

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[135]

[1] Thus have I heard:

The Exalted One was once staying near Sāvatthī
at the Jeta Grove in Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.

And there the Exalted One addressed the brethren, saying:

"Brethren!"

"Master!" responded those brethren.

The Exalted One said:

"I will teach you, brethren,
the person-pack,
the arising of the person-pack,
the ceasing of the person-pack,
the way to the ceasing of the person-pack.

Do ye listen to it.

And what, brethren, is the person-pack?

It is the five groups based on grasping.

What five?

The group based on body-grasping,
that based on feeling-grasping,
on perception-grasping,
on the activities-grasping,
on consciousness-grasping.

This, brethren, is called the person-pack.

And what, brethren, is the arising of the person-pack?

Just that craving which,
accompanied by lure and lust,
leads down to rebirth,
to wit:

The craving for feeling,
the craving for rebirth,
the craving for no rebirth.

This, brethren, is called
the arising of the person-pack.

And what, brethren, is the ceasing
of the person-pack?

It is the utter passionless ceasing,
the giving up,
the abandonment of,
the release from,
the freedom from
attachment to,
that craving.

This, brethren, is called
the ceasing of the person-pack.

And what, brethren,
is the way going to
the ceasing of the person-pack?

It is this Ariyan Eightfold Path, to wit:

Right view,
right aims,
right speech,
right action,
right living,
right effort,
right mindfulness,
right concentration.

This, brethren, is called
the way going to the ceasing of the person-pack."


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