Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses

SN27: Connected Discourses on Defilements

SN27:4 Contact

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

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.

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