The Buddha teaches that desire and greed for perceptions of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and ideas 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, rūpasaññāya chandarāgo, cittasseso upakkileso. Yo saddasaññāya … yo gandhasaññāya … yo rasasaññāya … yo phoṭṭhabbasaññāya … yo dhammasaññāya chandarāgo, cittasseso upakkileso. Yato kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno …pe… abhiññā sacchikaraṇīyesu dhammesū”ti.
Chaṭṭhaṁ.
Reference Translation by Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0).
Sāvatthinidānaṁ.
At Sāvatthī.
“Yo, bhikkhave, rūpasaññāya chandarāgo, cittasseso upakkileso.
“Mendicants, desire and greed for perception of sights,
Yo saddasaññāya …
perception of sounds,
yo gandhasaññāya …
perception of smells,
yo rasasaññāya …
perception of tastes,
yo phoṭṭhabbasaññāya …
perception of touches,
yo dhammasaññāya chandarāgo, cittasseso upakkileso.
or perception of ideas is a corruption of the mind. …”
Yato kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno …pe…
abhiññā sacchikaraṇīyesu dhammesū”ti.
Chaṭṭhaṁ.
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