Attached Upaya Sutta (SN 22:53)

- suttas - - evening talks - short morning talks - lectures - guided meditations - talk collections - other themes - chants - - - - à¹à¸à¸¢ - Franā§ais - Espaā±ol - - Portuguāªs - РÑÑÑкий - - - УкÑаÑнÑÑка Submit Search - Home - Suttas - SN - SN 22:53 Attached ## Browse Suttas Go to Saṃyutta Nikṅya index SN index ## Attached Upaya Sutta  (SN 22:53) Near Sṅvatthī. There the Blessed One said, "One attached is unreleased; one unattached is released. Should consciousness, when standing, stand attached to (a physical) form, supported by form (as its object), landing on form, watered with delight, it would exhibit growth, increase, & proliferation. "Should consciousness, when standing, stand attached to feeling, supported by feeling (as its object), landing on feeling, watered with delight, it would exhibit growth, increase, & proliferation. "Should consciousness, when standing, stand attached to perception, supported by perception (as its object), landing on perception, watered with delight, it would exhibit growth, increase, & proliferation. "Should consciousness, when standing, stand attached to fabrications, supported by fabrications (as its object), landing on fabrications, watered with delight, it would exhibit growth, increase, & proliferation. "Were someone to say, ),

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('â', I will describe a coming, a going, a passing away, an arising, a growth, an increase, or a proliferation of consciousness apart from form, from feeling, from perception, from fabrications,â that would be impossible. "If a monk abandons passion for the property of form.⦠"If a monk abandons passion for the property of feeling.⦠"If a monk abandons passion for the property of perception.⦠"If a monk abandons passion for the property of fabrications.⦠"If a monk abandons passion for the property of consciousness, then owing to the abandonment of passion, the support is cut off, and there is no landing of consciousness. Consciousness, thus not having landed, not increasing, not concocting, is released. Owing to its release, it is steady. Owing to its steadiness, it is contented. Owing to its contentment, it is not agitated. Not agitated, he (the monk) is totally unbound right within. He discerns that ),

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('â', Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world.â" See also: SN 12:38; SN 12:64; Ud 8:1; Sn 5:4; Sn 5:13 - --> - - - -