{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn22.47/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn22.47","id":"suttacentral_sn22.47","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn22.47/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. \u201cMendicants, whatever ascetics and brahmins regard various kinds of things as self, all regard the five grasping aggregates, or one of them. What five? It\u2019s when an unlearned ordinary person has not seen the noble ones, and is neither skilled nor trained in the teaching of the noble ones. They\u2019ve not seen true persons, and are neither skilled nor trained in the teaching of the true persons. They regard form as self, self as having form, form in self, or self in form. They regard feeling \u2026 perception \u2026 choices \u2026 consciousness as self, self as having consciousness, consciousness in self, or self in consciousness. So they\u2019re not rid of this way of regarding things, and the conceit \u2018I am\u2019. As long as they\u2019re not rid of the conceit \u2018I am\u2019, the five faculties are conceived\u2014 the eye, ear, nose, tongue, and body. The mind, ideas, and the element of ignorance are all present. Struck by feelings born of contact with ignorance, an unlearned ordinary person thinks \u2018I am\u2019, \u2018I am this\u2019, \u2018I will be\u2019, \u2018I will not be\u2019, \u2018I will have form\u2019, \u2018I will be formless\u2019, \u2018I will be percipient\u2019, \u2018I will not be percipient\u2019, \u2018I will be neither percipient nor non-percipient\u2019. The five faculties stay right where they are. But a learned noble disciple gives up ignorance about them and gives rise to knowledge. With the fading away of ignorance and the arising of knowledge, they don\u2019t think \u2018I am\u2019, \u2018I am this\u2019, \u2018I will be\u2019, \u2018I will not be\u2019, \u2018I will have form\u2019, \u2018I will be formless\u2019, \u2018I will be percipient\u2019, \u2018I will be non-percipient\u2019, \u2018I will be neither percipient nor non-percipient\u2019.\u201d","title":"Ways of Regarding","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":277}