Saṃyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
35. Saḷāyatana Saṃyutta
§ III: Paññāsaka Tatiya
1. Yoga-k-Khemi Vagga
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
4. The Book Called the Saḷāyatana-Vagga
Containing Kindred Sayings on the 'Six-Fold Sphere' of Sense and Other Subjects
35. Kindred Sayings the Sixfold Sphere of Sense
§ III: The 'Third Fifty' Suttas
1. The Chapter on Winning Security
Sutta 110
Upādāna Suttaṃ
Grasping[1]
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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[1][bodh][than] Thus have I heard:
The Exalted One once staying near Sāvatthī.
Then the Exalted One addressed the brethren, saying:
"Brethren."
"Lord," responded those brethren to the Exalted One.
The Exalted One thus spake:
"I will teach you, Brethren,
the things that make for grasping
and grasping.[ed1]
Do ye listen to it.
And what, Brethren, are the things that make for grasping
and what is grasping?
The eye, Brethren, is a thing that makes for grasping.
The desire and lust that are therein, -
that is grasping of the eye.
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The ear, Brethren, is a thing that makes for grasping.
The desire and lust that are therein, -
that is grasping of the ear.
■
The nose, Brethren, is a thing that makes for grasping.
The desire and lust that are therein, -
that is grasping of the nose.
■
The tongue, Brethren, is a thing that makes for grasping.
The desire and lust that are therein, -
that is grasping of the tongue.
■
The body, Brethren, is a thing that makes for grasping.
The desire and lust that are therein, -
that is grasping of the body.
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The mind, Brethren, is a thing that makes for grasping.
The desire and lust that are therein, -
that is grasping of the mind.
These, Brethren, are called
'the things that make for grasping,'
and this is grasping.
[1] These two sections are similar to §§ 120 - 121 of K.S. iii.
[ed1] Woodward has mistakenly repeated 'the fetter' from the previous sutta. Upādāniye ca bhikkhave dhamme desissāmi||
upādānaṃ ca.
