{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn35.94/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn35.94","id":"suttacentral_sn35.94","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.94/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. \u201cMendicants, these six fields of contact bring suffering when they\u2019re untamed, unguarded, unprotected, and unrestrained. What six? The field of eye contact brings suffering when it\u2019s untamed, unguarded, unprotected, and unrestrained. The field of ear contact \u2026 nose contact \u2026 tongue contact \u2026 body contact \u2026 The field of mind contact brings suffering when it\u2019s untamed, unguarded, unprotected, and unrestrained. These six fields of contact bring suffering when they\u2019re untamed, unguarded, unprotected, and unrestrained. These six fields of contact bring happiness when they\u2019re well tamed, well guarded, well protected, and well restrained. What six? The field of eye contact brings happiness when it\u2019s well tamed, well guarded, well protected, and well restrained. The field of ear contact \u2026 nose contact \u2026 tongue contact \u2026 body contact \u2026 The field of mind contact brings happiness when it\u2019s well tamed, well guarded, well protected, and well restrained. These six fields of contact bring happiness when they\u2019re well tamed, well guarded, well protected, and well restrained.\u201d That is what the Buddha said. Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say: \u201cMendicants, it\u2019s just the six fields of contact that lead the unrestrained to suffering. Those who understand how to restrain them live with faith as partner, not festering. When you\u2019ve seen pleasant sights and unpleasant ones, too, dispel all manner of desire for the pleasant, without hating what you don\u2019t like. When you\u2019ve heard sounds both liked and disliked, don\u2019t fall under the thrall of sounds you like, dispel hate for the unliked, and don\u2019t hurt your mind <j>by thinking of what you don\u2019t like. When you\u2019ve smelled a pleasant, fragrant scent, and one that\u2019s foul and unpleasant, dispel aversion for the unpleasant, while not yielding to desire for the pleasant. When you\u2019ve enjoyed a sweet, delicious taste, and sometimes those that are bitter, don\u2019t be attached to enjoying sweet tastes, and don\u2019t despise the bitter. Don\u2019t be intoxicated by a pleasant touch, and don\u2019t tremble at a painful touch. Look with equanimity at the duality <j>of pleasant and painful contacts, without favoring or opposing anything. People generally let their perceptions proliferate; perceiving and proliferating, they are attracted. Casting aside all mental constructions <j>of the domestic life, wander intent on renunciation. When the mind is well developed like this <j>regarding the six, it doesn\u2019t waver at contacts at all. Mendicants, those who have mastered greed and hate go beyond birth and death.\u201d","title":"Untamed, Unguarded","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":403}