{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn35.60/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn35.60","id":"suttacentral_sn35.60","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.60/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, I will teach you the principle for the complete understanding of all grasping. Listen \u2026 And what is the principle for the complete understanding of all grasping? Eye consciousness arises dependent on the eye and sights. The meeting of the three is contact. Contact is a requirement for feeling. Seeing this, a learned noble disciple grows disillusioned with the eye, sights, eye consciousness, eye contact, and feeling. Being disillusioned, desire fades away. When desire fades away they\u2019re freed. When they are liberated, they understand: \u2018I have completely understood grasping.\u2019 Ear consciousness arises dependent on the ear and sounds. \u2026 Nose consciousness arises dependent on the nose and smells. \u2026 Tongue consciousness arises dependent on the tongue and tastes. \u2026 Body consciousness arises dependent on the body and touches. \u2026 Mind consciousness arises dependent on the mind and ideas. The meeting of the three is contact. Contact is a requirement for feeling. Seeing this, a learned noble disciple grows disillusioned with the mind, ideas, mind consciousness, mind contact, and feeling. Being disillusioned, desire fades away. When desire fades away they\u2019re freed. When they are liberated, they understand: \u2018I have completely understood grasping.\u2019 This is the principle for the complete understanding of all grasping.\u201d","title":"The Complete Understanding of All Grasping","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":203}