{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn22.33/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn22.33","id":"suttacentral_sn22.33","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn22.33/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. \u201cMendicants, give up what\u2019s not yours. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness. And what isn\u2019t yours? Form isn\u2019t yours: give it up. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness. Feeling \u2026 Perception \u2026 Choices \u2026 Consciousness isn\u2019t yours: give it up. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness. Suppose a person was to carry off the grass, sticks, branches, and leaves in this Jeta\u2019s Grove, or burn them, or do what they want with them. Would you think: \u2018This person is carrying us off, burning us, or doing what they want with us\u2019?\u201d \u201cNo, sir. Why is that? Because to us that\u2019s neither self nor belonging to self.\u201d \u201cIn the same way, mendicants, form isn\u2019t yours: give it up. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness. Feeling \u2026 Perception \u2026 Choices \u2026 Consciousness isn\u2019t yours: give it up. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.\u201d","title":"It\u2019s Not Yours","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":163}