[558] "And how, friends, does one anticipate the future? Thinking, 'May my eye be thus in the future, may forms be thus,' one sets the mind (citta) on obtaining what has not yet been obtained; conditioned by that setting of the mind, one delights in that; delighting in that, one anticipates the future.
Thinking, 'May my ear be thus in the future, may sounds be thus' … 'May my nose be thus in the future, may odors be thus' … 'May my tongue be thus in the future, may tastes be thus' … 'May my body be thus in the future, may tangibles be thus' … Thinking, 'May my mind be thus in the future, may mental phenomena (dhammā) be thus,' one sets the mind on obtaining what has not yet been obtained; conditioned by that setting of the mind, one delights in that; delighting in that, one anticipates the future.
Thus indeed, friends, does one anticipate the future."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.