sn22.89:9.1 Then Venerable Khemaka, leaning on a staff, went to those senior mendicants and exchanged greetings with them.
sn22.89:9.2 When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side. They said to him:
sn22.89:9.3 “Reverend Khemaka, when you say ‘I am’, what is it that you’re talking about?
sn22.89:9.4 Is it form or apart from form?
sn22.89:9.5 Is it feeling …
sn22.89:9.6 perception …
sn22.89:9.7 choices …
sn22.89:9.8 consciousness, or apart from consciousness?
sn22.89:9.9 When you say ‘I am’, what is it that you’re talking about?”
sn22.89:9.10 “Reverends, I don’t say ‘I am’ with reference to form, or apart from form.
sn22.89:9.11 I don’t say ‘I am’ with reference to feeling …
sn22.89:9.12 perception …
sn22.89:9.13 choices …
sn22.89:9.14 consciousness, or apart from consciousness.
sn22.89:9.15 For when it comes to the five grasping aggregates I’m not rid of the conceit ‘I am’. But I don’t regard anything as ‘I am this’.