[32] Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Rājagaha, in the Bamboo Grove, the Squirrels' Feeding Ground. There the Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus:
"Bhikkhus, all is blind (andhabhūta). And what, bhikkhus, is the all that is blind? The eye, bhikkhus, is blind, forms are blind, eye-consciousness is blind, eye-contact is blind, and whatever feeling (vedanā) arises with eye-contact as condition — whether pleasant, or painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant — that too is blind. Blind by what? Blind by birth, by aging, by death, by sorrows, by lamentations, by pains, by griefs, by despairs — so I say. … The tongue is blind, tastes are blind, tongue-consciousness is blind, tongue-contact is blind, and whatever feeling arises with tongue-contact as condition — whether pleasant, or painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant — that too is blind. Blind by what? Blind by birth, by aging, by death, by sorrows, by lamentations, by pains, by griefs, by despairs — so I say. … The mind is blind, dhammas are blind, mind-consciousness is blind, mind-contact is blind, and whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition — whether pleasant, or painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant — that too is blind. Blind by what? Blind by birth, by aging, by death, by sorrows, by lamentations, by pains, by griefs, by despairs — so I say.
Seeing thus, bhikkhus, the instructed noble disciple becomes disenchanted with the eye, becomes disenchanted with eye-consciousness, becomes disenchanted with eye-contact … and whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition — whether pleasant, or painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant — with that too he becomes disenchanted. Being disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate; through dispassion he is liberated. When it is liberated, there comes the knowledge (ñāṇa): 'It is liberated.' He understands: 'Birth is destroyed, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more for this state of being.'"
The seventh.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.