Saɱyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
35. Saḷāyatana Saɱyutta
§ III: Paññāsaka Tatiya
1. Yoga-k-Khemi Vagga
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha
IV. The Book of the Six Sense Bases
35: Connected Discourses on the Six Sense Bases
The Third Fifty
1. Secure from Bondage
Sutta 104
Yoga-k-Khemi Suttaɱ
Secure from Bondage
Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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"Bhikkhus, I will teach you a Dhamma exposition on the theme of the one who declares the exertion to become secure from bondage.
Listen to that. ...
"And what, bhikkhus, is the Dhamma exposition on the theme of the one who declares the exertion to become secure from bondage?
There are, bhikkhus, forms cognizable by the eye that are desirable, lovely, agreeable, pleasing, sensually enticing, tantalizing. These have been abandoned by the Tathāgata, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated so that they are no more subject to future arising.
He declares an exertion [should be made] for their abandoning.
Therefore the Tathāgata is called one who declares the exertion to become secure from bondage.
"There are, bhikkhus, sounds cognizable by the ear ... mental phenomena cognizable by the mind that are desirable, lovely, agreeable, pleasing, sensually enticing, tantalizing.
These have been abandoned by the Tathāgata, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated so that they are no more subject to future arising.
He declares an exertion [should be made] for their abandoning.
Therefore the Tathāgata is called one who declares the exertion to become secure from bondage.
"This, bhikkhus, is the Dhamma exposition on the theme of the one who declares the exertion to become secure from bondage."
