Saṃyutta Nikāya Suttas

IV. Subject to Birth 33 (1) Subject to Birth At Sāvatthī . Bhikkhus, all is subject to birth. And what, Bhikkhus, is the all that is subject to birth? The eye is subject to birth. Forms … Eye-consciousness … Eye-contact … Whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition … that too is subject to birth. The ear … The tongue

V. Impermanent 43 (1)–52 (10) Impermanent, Etc. At S āvatth ī . Bhikkhus, all is impermanent…. All is suffering…. All is non-self…. All is to be directly known…. All is to be fully understood…. All is to be abandoned…. All is to be realized…. All is to be fully understood through direct knowledge…. All is oppressed…. All is stricken…. (Each to be completed as in §33.)

Saṁyutta Nikāya - Saḷāyatana Vagga. This major division of Saḷāyatana Vagga Samyutta Pāḷi contains 35-44 Saṁyuttas. Here you can read Samyutta Nikāya online. It deals mainly with the 6 sense organs or bases of contact named internal sense bases (eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind), 6 corresponding sense objects, known as external sense bases (visible form, sound, odour, taste,

Division II The Second Fifty I. Ignorance 53 (1) Abandoning Ignorance At Sāvatthī. Then a certain Bhikkhu approached the Blessed One, paid homage to him, sat down to one side, and said to him: Venerable sir, how should one know, how should one see, for ignorance to be abandoned and true knowledge to arise? Bhikkhu, when one knows and sees

II. Migajāla 63 (1) Migajāla (1) At Sāvatthī . Then the Venerable Migajāla approached the Blessed One, paid homage to him, sat down to one side, and said to him: Venerable sir, it is said, ‘ a lone dweller, a lone dweller .’ In what way, venerable sir, is one a lone dweller, and in what way is one dwelling

III. Sick 74 (1) Sick (1) At Sāvatthī . Then a certain Bhikkhu approached the Blessed One, paid homage to him, sat down to one side, and said to him: Venerable sir, in such and such a dwelling there is a certain newly ordained Bhikkhu, not well known, who is sick, afflicted, gravely ill. It would be good, venerable sir,

IV. Channa 84 (1) Subject to Disintegration At Sāvatthī . Then the Venerable Ānanda approached the Blessed One … and said to him: Venerable sir, it is said, ‘ the world, the world .’ In what way, venerable sir, is it said ‘the world’? Whatever is subject to disintegration , Ānanda , is called the world in the Noble One’s

V. The sixes 94 (1) Untamed, Unguarded At Sāvatthī . Bhikkhus, these 6 bases for contact—if untamed, unguarded, unprotected, unrestrained—are bringers of suffering. What 6? The eye, Bhikkhus, as a base for contact—if untamed, unguarded, unprotected, unrestrained—is a bringer of suffering. The ear as a base for contact … The mind as a base for contact … is a bringer

Division III The Third Fifty I. Secure From Bondage 104 (1) Secure from Bondage At Sāvatthī . 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

II. The World and Cords of Sensual Pleasure 114 (1) Māra’s Snare (1) Bhikkhus, there are forms cognizable by the eye that are desirable, lovely, agreeable, pleasing, sensually enticing, tantalizing. If a Bhikkhu seeks delight in them, welcomes them, and remains holding to them, he is called a Bhikkhu who has entered Māra’s lair, who has come under Māra’s control;

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