Devāsurasaṅgāmasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Saṁyuttanikāya · Saḷāyatanavaggasaṁyutta · Vol. 18 · Section 358

[358] "'I am' (asmi), bhikkhus — this is an involvement with conceit (māna). 'This I am' — this is an involvement with conceit. 'I shall be' — this is an involvement with conceit. 'I shall not be' — this is an involvement with conceit. 'I shall be possessed of form' — this is an involvement with conceit. 'I shall be formless' — this is an involvement with conceit. 'I shall be percipient' — this is an involvement with conceit. 'I shall be non-percipient' — this is an involvement with conceit. 'I shall be neither percipient nor non-percipient' — this is an involvement with conceit. An involvement with conceit, bhikkhus, is a disease; an involvement with conceit is a tumor; an involvement with conceit is a dart. Therefore, bhikkhus, you should train thus: 'We shall dwell with a mind in which conceit has been struck down.' Thus indeed, bhikkhus, should you train." The twelfth. The Āsīvisa Vagga, the fourth. Its summary (uddāna): The venomous snakes, the chariot, the tortoise, the two with the log, the corrupted; states of suffering, the kiṃsuka, the lute, the six animals, and the one with the sheaf of barley. Summary of the chapters in the Fourth Fifty: The destruction of delight, the sixty methods, the ocean, and the one with water; these constitute the Fourth Fifty, set forth in their sections. __________________ The First Sagāthā Vagga, the first.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.