{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn35.234/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn35.234","id":"suttacentral_sn35.234","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.234/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time the venerables \u0100nanda and Ud\u0101y\u012b were staying near Kosamb\u012b in Ghosita\u2019s monastery. Then in the late afternoon, Venerable Ud\u0101y\u012b came out of retreat, went to Venerable \u0100nanda, and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side and said to \u0100nanda: \u201cReverend \u0100nanda, the Buddha has explained, opened, and revealed in many ways how this body is not-self. Is it possible to explain consciousness in the same way? To teach, assert, establish, clarify, analyze, and reveal how consciousness is not-self?\u201d \u201cIt is possible, Reverend Ud\u0101y\u012b. Does eye consciousness arise dependent on the eye and sights?\u201d \u201cYes, reverend.\u201d \u201cIf the cause and reason that gives rise to eye consciousness were to totally and utterly cease without remainder, would eye consciousness still be found?\u201d \u201cNo, reverend.\u201d \u201cIn this way, too, it can be understood how consciousness is not-self. Does ear \u2026 nose \u2026 tongue \u2026 body \u2026 mind consciousness arise dependent on the mind and ideas?\u201d \u201cYes, reverend.\u201d \u201cIf the cause and reason that gives rise to mind consciousness were to totally and utterly cease without remainder, would mind consciousness still be found?\u201d \u201cNo, reverend.\u201d \u201cIn this way, too, it can be understood how consciousness is not-self. Suppose there was a person in need of heartwood. Wandering in search of heartwood, they\u2019d take a sharp axe and enter a forest. There they\u2019d see a big banana trunk, straight and young and grown unskewed. They\u2019d cut it down at the base, cut off the root, cut off the top, and unroll the coiled sheaths. But they wouldn\u2019t even find sapwood, much less heartwood. In the same way, a mendicant sees these six fields of contact as neither self nor belonging to self. So seeing, they don\u2019t grasp anything in the world. Not grasping, they\u2019re not anxious. Not being anxious, they personally become extinguished. They understand: \u2018Rebirth is ended, the spiritual journey has been completed, what had to be done has been done, there is nothing further for this place.\u2019\u201d","title":"With Ud\u0101y\u012b","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":338}