Rādhasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Saṁyuttanikāya · Saḷāyatanavaggasaṁyutta · Vol. 18 · Section 93

[93] "Rādha, whatever is suffering (dukkha), there you should abandon desire (chanda) for it. And what, Rādha, is suffering? The eye, Rādha, is suffering; there you should abandon desire for it. Forms, eye-consciousness, eye-contact, and whatever … with eye-contact as condition … or neither-painful-nor-pleasant—that too is suffering; there you should abandon desire for it. … "The mind is suffering; mental phenomena (dhammā), mind-consciousness, mind-contact, and whatever feeling (vedanā) arises with mind-contact as condition—whether pleasant, painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant—that too is suffering; there you should abandon desire for it. Rādha, whatever is suffering, there you should abandon desire for it." The fourth.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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