Friends:
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, if one does not really understand both the cause, ceasing,
the satisfaction, the danger, and the escape from the Six Sources of
Contact, then one has not lived the Noble life, & one is quite far away
from comprehending this Dhamma & from practicing this Discipline...
Then a certain Bhikkhu said to the Blessed One: Venerable Sir, I am
lost, for I do neither really understand the cause, nor the ceasing,
nor the satisfaction, nor the danger, nor the escape from any of the
Six Sources of Contact ...!!!
What do you think, Bhikkhu, do you regard the Eye as:
This is mine, this I am, this is my self? No, Venerable Sir...
What do you think, Bhikkhu, do you regard the Ear as:
This is mine, this I am, this is my self? No, Venerable Sir...
What do you think, Bhikkhu, do you regard the Nose as:
This is mine, this I am, this is my self? No, Venerable Sir...
What do you think, Bhikkhu, do you regard the Tongue as:
This is mine, this I am, this is my self? No, Venerable Sir...
What do you think, Bhikkhu, do you regard the Body as:
This is mine, this I am, this is my self? No, Venerable Sir...
What do you think, Bhikkhu, do you regard the Mind as:
This is mine, this I am, this is my self? No, Venerable Sir...
Very good, Bhikkhu! So should you continue to clearly comprehend the
eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and the mind as it really is, with correct
understanding thus: This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self!
In this way will the six sources or contact be left behind, by creating
no future renewed existence! This itself is the End of all Suffering...
More on this deepest self-deception: The conceit that "I Am!" (Asmi-mana):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Pride.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Conceit_I_Am.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/I-dentification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Prison_of_Pride.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anti-EGO-Tool.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ending_Pain_Itself.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/No_Agent_is_Inside.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Solo_Self-Deception.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Mistaken_Reference.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Selfless_and_Harmless.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Clinging_to_the_notion_I_Am.htm
Comments:
The cause of the six senses is the arising of name-&-form, body-&-mind...
The six senses cease at the ceasing of name-&-form, body-&-mind...
The satisfaction of the six senses is the pleasure & Joy they generate...
The danger of the six senses is their inherent unstable impermanence...
The escape from the six senses is the elimination of craving: Nibbāna!
Source:
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya. Book IV [43]
Section 35: On The 6 Senses. The six sources or contact: 71-2.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Updated: 19 Jan 2010
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ending_Pain_Itself.htm