SN27:4 Contact
- © Translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi. (More copyright information)
1"Bhikkhus, desire and lust for eye-contact … for ear-contact … for nose-contact … for tongue-contact … for body-contact … for mind-contact is a corruption of the mind.
When a bhikkhu has abandoned the mental corruption in these six cases, his mind inclines to renunciation. A mind fortified by renunciation becomes wieldy in regard to those things that are to be realized by direct knowledge."[n.274] Spk: His mind inclines to renunciation (nekkhammaninnaṁ c’ assa cittaṁ hoti): The mind of serenity and insight inclines to the nine supramundane states. Those things to be realized by direct knowledge (abhiññā sacchikaraṇiyesu dhammesu): the things pertaining to the six direct knowledges. Spk does not gloss the verb khāyati, lit. "appears."
1Sāvatthinidānaṁ. "Yo, bhikkhave, cakkhusamphassasmiṁ chandarāgo, cittasseso upakkileso. Yo sotasamphassasmiṁ … yo ghānasamphassasmiṁ … yo jivhāsamphassasmiṁ … yo kāyasamphassasmiṁ … yo manosamphassasmiṁ chandarāgo, cittasseso upakkileso.
Yato kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno … pe … abhiññā sacchikaraṇīyesu dhammesū"ti.
Catutthaṁ.
