SAMUDDAVAGGA

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Paṭhamasamuddasutta

SN 35.228

The Ocean (1st)

In the Buddha’s teaching the “ocean” is the sense organs, the current is the sense objects.

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Dutiyasamuddasutta

SN 35.229

The Ocean (2nd)

In the Buddha’s teaching the “ocean” is the delights of sense stimuli.

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Bāḷisikopamasutta

SN 35.230

The Simile of the Angler

Sense pleasures are like a baited hook.

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Khīrarukkhopamasutta

SN 35.231

The Simile of the Latex-Producing Tree

Like a tree that yields sap when cut, so long as desire is present it will be activated by the senses.

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Koṭṭhikasutta

SN 35.232

With Koṭṭhita

Mahākoṭṭhita asks Sāriputta whether the interior and exterior sense fields are the fetters of each other. No; it is desire that is the fetter, like the yoke that binds two oxen. One with no desire still experiences the senses...

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Kāmabhūsutta

SN 35.233

With Kāmabhū

Kāmabhū asks Ānanda whether the interior and exterior sense fields are the fetters of each other. No; it is desire that is the fetter. One with no desire still experiences the senses but without fetters.

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Udāyīsutta

SN 35.234

With Udāyī

Udāyı̄ notes to Ānanda that the Buddha has taught the body as not-self; what then of consciousness? Ānanda then explains how consciousness arises dependent on conditions.

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Ādittapariyāyasutta

SN 35.235

The Exposition on Burning

It would be better for the sense organs to be pierced with red-hot spikes than to get attached to a pleasant sense experience.

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Paṭhamahatthapādopamasutta

SN 35.236

The Simile of Hands and Feet (1st)

So long as this body exists there is suffering due to the senses.

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Dutiyahatthapādopamasutta

SN 35.237

The Simile of Hands and Feet (2nd)

So long as this body exists there is suffering due to the senses.

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Bhikkhu Sujato (2018)

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