[56] **"See them floundering over what is cherished as 'mine' (mamāyite passatha phandamāne)"**: as to cherishing as 'mine' (mamatta), there are two kinds of cherishing as 'mine': cherishing as 'mine' through craving (taṇhā), and cherishing as 'mine' through view (diṭṭhi).
What is cherishing as 'mine' through craving? To whatever extent things are made a boundary, made a border, made a portion, made a limit, taken possession of, and cherished as 'mine' by what is reckoned as craving — 'this is mine, that is mine, this much is mine, to this extent it is mine: mine are forms, sounds, smells, tastes, tangibles, spreads and coverings, female and male slaves, goats and sheep, fowl and pigs, elephants, cattle, horses and mares, field and site, money and gold, villages, towns and royal capitals, the realm and the countryside, the treasury and the storehouse' — one cherishes as one's own even the entire great earth through the power of craving, extending as far as the one hundred and eight deviations of craving: this is cherishing as 'mine' through craving.
What is cherishing as 'mine' through view? Personality-view (sakkāyadiṭṭhi) with its twenty grounds, wrong view (micchādiṭṭhi) with its ten grounds, the view that grasps extremes (antaggāhikā diṭṭhi) with its ten grounds; whatever view of such a kind — the resort to views, the thicket of views, the wilderness of views, the contortion of views, the vacillation of views, the fetter of views; the grasping, the laying hold, the insistence, the misapprehension, the wrong road, the false path, wrongness, the sphere of sectarian tenets (titthāyatana), the grasp of inversion, the grasp of perversion, the grasp of distortion, the wrong grasp, the grasping of what is not so as 'it is so' — as far as the sixty-two speculative views: this is cherishing as 'mine' through view.
**"See them floundering over what is cherished as 'mine'"**: even those apprehensive of being deprived of an object cherished as 'mine' flounder; while it is being taken from them, they flounder; and when it has been taken, they flounder. Even those apprehensive of the alteration of an object cherished as 'mine' flounder; while it is altering, they flounder; and when it has altered, they flounder — they flounder, they writhe, they struggle, they tremble, they quake, they are shaken through and through. See, behold, look upon, contemplate, examine them thus floundering, writhing, struggling, trembling, quaking, shaken through and through. Hence: "See them floundering over what is cherished as 'mine'."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.