[301] "Dependent on the eye, friend, and forms, there arises eye-consciousness (cakkhuviññāṇa)?"
"So it is, friend."
"Friend, whatever cause and whatever condition there is for the arising of eye-consciousness—if that cause and that condition were to cease completely, totally, in every way entirely, without remainder, would eye-consciousness still be discerned?"
"Certainly not, friend."
"By this method (pariyāya) too, friend, this has been declared, disclosed, and made plain by the Blessed One: 'Thus this consciousness (viññāṇa) is not-self (anattā).'" …
"Dependent on the tongue, friend, and tastes, there arises tongue-consciousness (jivhāviññāṇa)?"
"So it is, friend."
"Friend, whatever cause and whatever condition there is for the arising of tongue-consciousness—if that cause and that condition were to cease completely, totally, in every way entirely, without remainder, would tongue-consciousness still be discerned?"
"Certainly not, friend."
"By this method too, friend, this has been declared, disclosed, and made plain by the Blessed One: 'Thus this consciousness is not-self.'" …
"Dependent on the mind, friend, and dhammas, there arises mind-consciousness (manoviññāṇa)?"
"So it is, friend."
"Friend, whatever cause and whatever condition there is for the arising of mind-consciousness—if that cause and that condition were to cease completely, totally, in every way entirely, without remainder, would mind-consciousness still be discerned?"
"Certainly not, friend."
"By this method too, friend, this has been declared, disclosed, and made plain by the Blessed One: 'Thus this consciousness is not-self.'"
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.