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- Samyutta Nikaya XXXV.101
- Na Tumhaka Sutta
- Not Yours
- For free distribution only, as a gift of Dhamma
"Whatever is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your
long-term happiness & benefit. And what is not yours?
"The eye is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your
long-term happiness & benefit. Forms are not yours...Eye-consciousness is not
yours...Eye-contact is not yours...Whatever arises in dependence on eye-contact,
experienced either as pleasure, as pain, or as neither-pleasure-nor-pain, that too is not
yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness &
benefit.
"The ear is not yours: let go of it...
"The nose is not yours: let go of it...
"The tongue is not yours: let go of it...
"The body is not yours: let go of it...
"The intellect is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your
long-term happiness & benefit. Ideas are not yours...Intellect-consciousness is not
yours...Intellect-contact is not yours...Whatever arises in dependence on
intellect-contact, experienced either as pleasure, as pain, or as
neither-pleasure-nor-pain, that too is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will
be for your long-term happiness & benefit.
"Suppose a person were to gather or burn or do as he likes with
the grass, twigs, branches, & leaves here in Jeta's Grove. Would
the thought occur to you, 'It's us that this person is gathering, burning, or doing with
as he likes'?"
"No, lord. Why is that? Because those things are not our self nor do they pertain
to our self."
"In the same way, monks, the eye is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it
will be for your long-term happiness & benefit...The ear...The nose...The tongue...The
body...The intellect is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your
long-term happiness & benefit...Whatever arises in dependence on intellect-contact,
experienced either as pleasure, as pain, or as neither-pleasure-nor-pain, that too is not
yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness &
benefit."