Audio Texts.."The Blessed One then asked him: "Uttara, does the brahmin Parasariya teach his disciples the development of the faculties?" Uttara: "He does, Master Gotama."
Budda: "But, Uttara, how does he teach his disciples the development of the faculties?"
Uttara : "Here, Master Gotama, one does not see forms with the eye, one does not hear sounds with the ear. That is how the brahmin Parasariya teaches his disciples the development of the faculties."
Buddha: "If that is so, Uttara, then a blind man and a deaf man will have developed faculties, according to what the brahmin Parasariya says. For a blind man does not see forms with the eye, and a deaf man does not hear sounds with the ear." When this was said, the brahmin student Uttara, Parasariya's pupil, sat silent, dismayed, with shoulders drooping and head down, glum, and without response.
Then, knowing this, the Blessed One addressed the venerable Ananda: "Ananda, the brahmin Parasariya teaches his disciples the development of the faculties in one way, but in the Noble One's Discipline the supreme development of the faculties is otherwise."
Ananda: "Now is the time, Blessed One, now is the time, Sublime One, for the Blessed One to teach the supreme development of the faculties in the Noble One's Discipline. Having heard it from the Blessed One, the bhikkhus will remember it."
"Then listen, Ananda, and attend closely to what I shall say."
"Yes, venerable sir," Ananda replied.
The Blessed One said this: "Now, Ananda, how is there the supreme development of the faculties in the Noble One's Discipline? Here, Ananda, when a bhikkhu sees a form with the eye, there arises in him what is agreeable, there arises what is disagreeable, there arises what is both agreeable and disagreeable. He understands thus: "There has arisen in me what is agreeable, there has arisen what is disagreeable, there has arisen what is both agreeable and disagreeable. But that is conditioned, gross, dependently arisen; this is peaceful, this is sublime, that is, equanimity.' The agreeable that arose, the disagreeable that arose, and the both agreeable and disagreeable that arose cease in him and equanimity is established. Just as a man with good sight, having opened his eyes might shut them or having shut his eyes might open them, so too concerning anything at all, the agreeable that arose, the disagreeable that arose, and the both agreeable and disagreeable that arose cease just as quickly, just as rapidly,
Majjhima Nikaya
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Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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MN 152 Indriyabhavana Sutta:
The Development of the Faculties
MNx_152_BhikkhuBodhi_MajjhimaNikaya.pdf - Adobe Acrobat Pro 2020-03-01 17-05-05.mp4
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