[439] **And one does not sorrow over what is not** (asatā ca na socati): one does not sorrow over an object that has changed, nor, when an object has changed, does one sorrow over it. One does not sorrow, thinking, "My eye has changed"; one does not sorrow, does not grow weary, does not lament, does not beat one's breast and wail, does not fall into bewilderment, thinking, "My ear... my nose... my tongue... my body... my mind (citta)... my forms... my sounds... my odours... my tastes... my tangibles... my family... my company... my dwelling... my gain... my fame... my praise... my happiness... my robe... my almsfood... my lodging... my medicinal requisites for the sick... my mother... my father... my brother... my sister... my son... my daughter... my friends... my companions... my kinsmen... my blood relations have changed." Thus too, one does not sorrow over what is not.
Or else, when touched, afflicted, beset, and burdened by disagreeable, painful feeling (vedanā), one does not sorrow, does not grow weary, does not lament, does not beat one's breast and wail, does not fall into bewilderment. When touched, afflicted, beset, and burdened by eye-disease, one does not sorrow, does not grow weary, does not lament, does not beat one's breast and wail, does not fall into bewilderment. When touched, afflicted, beset, and burdened by disease of the inner ear, nose-disease, tongue-disease, body-disease, head-disease, disease of the external ear, mouth-disease, tooth-disease, cough, asthma, catarrh, burning fever, fever, stomach disorder, fainting, dysentery, colic, cholera, leprosy, boils, eczema, consumption, epilepsy, ringworm, itch, scab, scratch-disease, scabies, blood-disease, bile-disorder, diabetes, hemorrhoids, pustules, fistula; by illnesses originating from bile, illnesses originating from phlegm, illnesses originating from wind, illnesses arising from a combination [of humours], illnesses born of the change of seasons, illnesses born of improper care, illnesses born of assault, illnesses born of the ripening of kamma; by cold, by heat, by hunger, by thirst, by defecation, by urination, and by contact with flies, mosquitoes, wind, sun, and creeping creatures — one does not sorrow, does not grow weary, does not lament, does not beat one's breast and wail, does not fall into bewilderment. Thus too, one does not sorrow over what is not.
Or else, when something is not, is not found, is not to be obtained, one does not sorrow, does not grow weary, does not lament, does not beat one's breast and wail, does not fall into bewilderment, thinking, "Oh, would that it were mine! Alas, I have it not! Oh, might it be mine! Alas, I do not obtain it!" Thus too, one does not sorrow over what is not.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.