[257] Bhikkhus, suppose a dog bound by a leash were tethered to a firm post or pillar: it would just keep running around and revolving around that very post or pillar. In the same way, bhikkhus, the uninstructed worldling (puthujjana), who has no regard for the noble ones … undisciplined in the Dhamma of good persons, regards form (rūpa) as self … regards feeling (vedanā) as self … perception (saññā) … regards volitional formations (saṅkhārā) as self … regards consciousness (viññāṇa) as self, or self as possessing consciousness, or consciousness as in self, or self as in consciousness. He just keeps running around and revolving around form; around feeling … around perception … around volitional formations … he just keeps running around and revolving around consciousness. Running around and revolving around form; feeling … perception … volitional formations … running around and revolving around consciousness, he is not freed from form, not freed from feeling, not freed from perception, not freed from volitional formations, not freed from consciousness; he is not freed from birth, aging, death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair; he is not freed from suffering (dukkha), I say.
But, bhikkhus, the instructed noble disciple, who has regard for the noble ones … well disciplined in the Dhamma of good persons, does not regard form as self … nor feeling … nor perception … nor volitional formations … does not regard consciousness as self, nor self as possessing consciousness, nor consciousness as in self, nor self as in consciousness. He does not run around and revolve around form; feeling … perception … volitional formations … he does not run around and revolve around consciousness. Not running around and revolving around form; feeling … perception … volitional formations … not running around and revolving around consciousness, he is freed from form, freed from feeling, freed from perception, freed from volitional formations, freed from consciousness; he is freed from birth, aging, death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair; he is freed from suffering, I say.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.