Mahāsaḷāyatanikasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Majjhimanikāya · Vol. 14 · Section 826

[826] The Blessed One said this: "Bhikkhus, not knowing and not seeing the eye as it really is (yathābhūta), not knowing and not seeing forms (rūpa) as they really are, not knowing and not seeing eye-consciousness as it really is, not knowing and not seeing eye-contact as it really is, and not knowing and not seeing as it really is whatever is felt—pleasant, painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant—that arises with eye-contact as condition, one is inflamed with lust for the eye, is inflamed with lust for forms, is inflamed with lust for eye-consciousness, is inflamed with lust for eye-contact; and one is inflamed with lust for whatever is felt—pleasant, painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant—that arises with eye-contact as condition. "For one who abides thus inflamed with lust, fettered, infatuated, contemplating gratification, the five aggregates subject to clinging (pañcupādānakkhandhā) go on to accumulation in the future. And his craving (taṇhā)—which leads to renewed existence, accompanied by delight and lust, delighting now here, now there—increases. His bodily distresses increase and his mental distresses increase; his bodily torments increase and his mental torments increase; his bodily fevers increase and his mental fevers increase. He experiences bodily suffering (dukkha) and mental suffering."

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.