[862] **And he does not sorrow over what is not (asatā ca na socati)**: he does not sorrow over an object that has changed, or, when an object has changed, he does not sorrow over it. He does not sorrow, thinking, "My eye has changed"; he does not sorrow, does not grow weary, does not lament, does not beat his breast and wail, does not fall into confusion, thinking, "My ear, my nose, my tongue, my body; my forms, my sounds, my smells, my tastes, my tangible objects; my family, my group, my dwelling, my gain … my relatives and kinsmen have changed." Thus too he does not sorrow over what is not.
Or else, touched, beset, afflicted, and possessed by disagreeable, painful feeling (vedanā), he does not sorrow, does not grow weary, does not lament, does not beat his breast and wail, does not fall into confusion. Thus too he does not sorrow over what is not.
Or else, touched and beset by eye-disease … touched, beset, afflicted, and possessed by contact with gadflies, mosquitoes, wind, sun, and creeping creatures, he does not sorrow, does not grow weary, does not lament, does not beat his breast and wail, does not fall into confusion. Thus too he does not sorrow over what is not.
Or else, when something is not, does not exist, and is not to be found, he does not sorrow, does not grow weary, does not lament, does not beat his breast and wail, does not fall into confusion, thinking, "It was indeed mine — alas, it is mine no more! It might indeed be mine — alas, I do not obtain it!" Thus too he does not sorrow over what is not.
[Note 1: The Burmese (M.) edition reads "na santi."]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.