The Buddha teaches that desire and greed for feelings born of eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind contact is a corruption of the mind that must be abandoned so the mind inclines to renunciation and becomes fit for realizing anything attainable by insight.
Sāvatthinidānaṁ.
“Yo, bhikkhave, cakkhusamphassajāya vedanāya chandarāgo, cittasseso upakkileso. Yo sotasamphassajāya vedanāya … yo ghānasamphassajāya vedanāya … yo jivhāsamphassajāya vedanāya … yo kāyasamphassajāya vedanāya … yo manosamphassajāya vedanāya chandarāgo, cittasseso upakkileso. Yato kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno …pe… abhiññā sacchikaraṇīyesu dhammesū”ti.
Pañcamaṁ.
Reference Translation by Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0).
Sāvatthinidānaṁ.
At Sāvatthī.
“Yo, bhikkhave, cakkhusamphassajāya vedanāya chandarāgo, cittasseso upakkileso.
“Mendicants, desire and greed for feeling born of eye contact,
Yo sotasamphassajāya vedanāya …
feeling born of ear contact,
yo ghānasamphassajāya vedanāya …
feeling born of nose contact,
yo jivhāsamphassajāya vedanāya …
feeling born of tongue contact,
yo kāyasamphassajāya vedanāya …
feeling born of body contact,
yo manosamphassajāya vedanāya chandarāgo, cittasseso upakkileso.
or feeling born of mind contact is a defilement of the mind. …”
Yato kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno …pe…
abhiññā sacchikaraṇīyesu dhammesū”ti.
Pañcamaṁ.
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