The Life Stories of the Male Lay Disciples – 2167
Having exhorted Anāthapiṇḍika to train himself to be free of attachment from
the eye through conceit, craving and wrong view, and also to have no lingering
fondness for the eye, Ven. Sāriputta further exhorted him as follows:
“That being so, householder, you should practise thus: ‘I will have no attachment
for the ear … the nose … the tongue … for the mind, the mind-base; and not
even a subtle fondness for the mind.’
That being so, householder, you should practise thus: ‘I will have no attachment
for visual objects … sounds … odours … tangible objects … mind-objects; and
not even a subtle fondness for mind-objects.’
That being so, householder, you should practise thus: ‘I will have no attachment
for eye-consciousness … ear-consciousness … nose consciousness … body-
consciousness … mind-consciousness; and not even a subtle fondness for mind-
consciousness.’
That being so, householder, you should practise thus: ‘I will have no attachment
for eye-contact … ear-contact … nose-contact … tongue-contact … body-
contact … mind-contact; and not even a subtle fondness for mind-contact.’
That being so, householder, you should practise thus: ‘I will have no attachment
for sensation arising out of eye-contact … ear-contact … nose-contact …
tongue-contact … body-contact … mind-contact; and not even a subtle fondness
for sensation arising out of mind-contact.’
That being so, householder, you should practise thus: ‘I will have no attachment
for the element of solidity … the element of cohesion … the element of heat …
the element of motion … the element of space … the element of consciousness;
and not even a subtle fondness for the element of consciousness.’
That being so, householder, you should practise thus: ‘I will have no attachment
for corporeality … sensation … perception … volitions … consciousness; and
not even subtle fondness for consciousness.’
That being so, householder, you should practise thus: ‘I will have no attachment
for the absorption (
jhāna
) of the infinity of space … the infinity of
consciousness … nothingness … neither-consciousness-nor-non-consciousness;
and not even a subtle fondness for the absorption of neither-consciousness-nor-
nonconsciousness.’