[1489] Sakavādin: Is the eye sense base (cakkhāyatana) a result (vipāka)?
Paravādin: Yes.
Sakavādin: Is it to be experienced as pleasant, to be experienced as painful, … having an object (sārammaṇa)? Is there for it adverting (āvajjanā), … aspiration (paṇidhi)?
Paravādin: It should not be said thus. …
Sakavādin: Is it not the case that it is not to be experienced as pleasant, … that it is without an object (anārammaṇa), that there is for it no adverting, … aspiration?
Paravādin: Yes.
Sakavādin: If it is not to be experienced as pleasant, … is without an object, and there is for it no adverting, … aspiration, then indeed you should not say: "The eye sense base is a result." …
Sakavādin: Is contact (phassa) a result, contact to be experienced as pleasant, … having an object? Is there for it adverting, … aspiration?
Paravādin: Yes.
Sakavādin: Is the eye sense base a result, the eye sense base to be experienced as pleasant, … having an object? Is there for it adverting, … aspiration?
Paravādin: It should not be said thus. …
Sakavādin: Is the eye sense base a result, the eye sense base not to be experienced as pleasant, … without an object? Is there for it no adverting, … aspiration?
Paravādin: Yes.
Sakavādin: Is contact a result, contact not to be experienced as pleasant, … without an object? Is there for it no adverting, … aspiration?
Paravādin: It should not be said thus. …
The ear sense base (sotāyatana) … The nose sense base (ghānāyatana) … The tongue sense base (jivhāyatana) …
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.