The Primary Self-Deception of a core Ego:
Even when old & sick, the wise
Elder Khemaka spoke this & thereby
made himself & 60 listening bhikkhu friends fully awakened Arahats:
Friends, I do not speak of 'I Am' as
within form, nor do I speak of
'I Am' as outside or apart from form! I do not speak of 'I Am' as within
feeling, nor do I speak of 'I Am' as outside or apart from feeling! I do
not speak of 'I Am' as within experience, nor do I speak of 'I Am' as
outside or apart from experience! I do not speak of 'I Am' as within
mental construction, nor do I speak of 'I Am' as outside or apart from
mental construction! I do not speak of 'I Am' as within consciousness,
nor do I speak of 'I Am' as outside or apart from consciousness!
Friends, although the notion 'I Am' has still not been eliminated by me
regarding these five clusters of clinging, yet I do not regard anything
among them or within them as 'This I am...' ...
Friends, even though a Noble Disciple has broken the
five minor mental
chains, eliminated the
five lower fetters, still, regarding these five
clusters of clinging, there remains in him a residual conceit 'I Am',
there lingers a subtle desire for being: 'I Am' and there hang on a
latent tendency to conceiving 'I Am', that has not yet been uprooted!
Sometime later while he dwells contemplating the rise and fall of the 5
clusters of clinging: 'Such is form, such is it's cause, such is it's ceasing;
such is feeling, such is it's cause, such is it's ceasing; such is experience,
such is it's cause, such is it's ceasing; such is mental construction, such is
it's cause, such is it's ceasing; such is consciousness, such is it's cause,
such is it's ceasing, is it's passing away... As he dwells thus contemplating
rise & fall in these five clusters of clinging, any residual conceit 'I Am',
any remnant desire to 'I Am', & any latent tendency 'I Am', that had not
yet been uprooted, this becomes uprooted & eliminated completely...
Source: The Grouped Sayings of the
Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya III [130-1]
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/samyutta/sn22-089.html
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PS: The causes of origin cause
arising when they are present, while ceasing when they are absent:
Cause of Body & Form is Food, past Ignorance, Lust for Form, and Action
resulting in Form.
Cause of Feeling is Contact, past Ignorance, Lust for Feeling, and Action
resulting in Feeling.
Cause of Experience is Contact, Ignorance, Lust for Experience, and Action
resulting in Experience.
Cause of Construction is Contact, Ignorance, Lust for Construction, & Action
resulting in Construction.
Cause of Consciousness is Name&Form, Ignorance, Lust for form, Action
resulting in Consciousness.
