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Linked Discourses 35.154 – Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.154

15. The Old and the New – 15. Navapurāṇavagga

SN 35.154 Endowed With Faculties – Indriyasampannasutta

 

Then a bhikkhu went up to the Buddha … and asked him,

Atha kho aññataro bhikkhu yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami …pe… ekamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:

“Sir, they speak of someone who is ‘accomplished regarding the faculties’.

“‘indriyasampanno, indriyasampanno’ti, bhante, vuccati.

How is someone accomplished regarding the faculties defined?”

Kittāvatā nu kho, bhante, indriyasampanno hotī”ti?

“Bhikkhu, if someone meditates observing rise and fall in the eye faculty, they grow disillusioned with the eye faculty.

“Cakkhundriye ce, bhikkhu, udayabbayānupassī viharanto cakkhundriye nibbindati …pe…

If they meditate observing rise and fall in the ear faculty … nose faculty … tongue faculty … body faculty …

jivhindriye ce, bhikkhu, udayabbayānupassī viharanto jivhindriye nibbindati …pe…

mind faculty, they grow disillusioned with the mind faculty.

manindriye ce, bhikkhu, udayabbayānupassī viharanto manindriye nibbindati.

Being disillusioned, desire fades away. … When they’re freed, they know they’re freed.

Nibbindaṁ virajjati …pe… vimuttasmiṁ vimuttamiti ñāṇaṁ hoti.

They understand: ‘Rebirth is ended, the spiritual journey has been completed, what had to be done has been done, there is no return to any state of existence.’

‘Khīṇā jāti, vusitaṁ brahmacariyaṁ, kataṁ karaṇīyaṁ, nāparaṁ itthattāyā’ti pajānāti.

This is how someone who is accomplished regarding the faculties is defined.”

Ettāvatā kho, bhikkhu, indriyasampanno hotī”ti.