Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses

SN27: Connected Discourses on Defilements

SN27:3 Consciousness

1"Bhikkhus, desire and lust for eye-consciousness … for mind-consciousness is a corruption of the mind. When a bhikkhu has abandoned the mental corruption in these six cases … sn.iii.233his mind becomes wieldy in regard to those things that are to be realized by direct knowledge."

1Sāvatthinidānaṁ. "Yo, bhikkhave, cakkhuviññāṇasmiṁ chandarāgo, cittasseso upakkileso. Yo sotaviññāṇasmiṁ … yo ghānaviññāṇasmiṁ … yo jivhāviññāṇasmiṁ … yo kāyaviññāṇasmiṁ … yo manoviññāṇasmiṁ chandarāgo, cittasseso upakkileso. Yato kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno imesu chasu ṭhānesu cetaso upakkileso pahīno hoti, nekkhammaninnañcassa cittaṁ hoti. Nekkhammaparibhāvitaṁ cittaṁ kammaniyaṁ khāyati, abhiññā sacchikaraṇīyesu dhammesū"ti.


Tatiyaṁ.

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