Saɱyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
35. Saḷāyatana Saɱyutta
§ I: Mūla-Paññāsa
3. Sabba Vagga
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha
IV. The Book of the Six Sense Bases
35: Connected Discourses on the Six Sense Bases
The Root Fifty
3. The All
Sutta 29
Andha-Bhūtam aka Aḍḍha-Bhūtaɱ Suttaɱ
Weighed Down
Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the Squirrel Sanctuary.
There the Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus thus:
"Bhikkhus, all is weighed down.
[21] And what, bhikkhus, is the all that is weighed down?
The eye is weighed down, forms are weighed down, eye-consciousness is weighed down, eye-contact is weighed down, and whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition — whether pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant — that too is weighed down.
Weighed down by what?
Weighed down by birth, aging, and death; by sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair, I say.
"The ear is weighed down ...
The mind is weighed down ...
Weighed down by what?
Weighed down by birth ... by despair, I say.
"Seeing thus ...
He understands:
'... there is no more for this state of being."
