sn35.138:1.1 “Mendicants, give up what’s not yours.
sn35.138:1.2 Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.
sn35.138:1.3 And what isn’t yours?
sn35.138:1.4 The eye isn’t yours: give it up.
sn35.138:1.5 Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.
sn35.138:1.6 The ear … nose … tongue … body …
sn35.138:1.8 mind isn’t yours: give it up.
sn35.138:1.9 Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.
sn35.138:1.10 Suppose a person was to carry off the grass, sticks, branches, and leaves in this Jeta’s Grove, or burn them, or do what they want with them. Would you think:
sn35.138:1.11 ‘This person is carrying us off, burning us, or doing what they want with us’?”
sn35.138:1.12 “No, sir.
sn35.138:1.13 Why is that?
sn35.138:1.14 Because to us that’s neither self nor belonging to self.”
sn35.138:1.15 “In the same way, the eye isn’t yours: give it up.
sn35.138:1.16 Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.
sn35.138:1.17 The ear … nose … tongue … body …
sn35.138:1.19 mind isn’t yours: give it up.
sn35.138:1.20 Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness.”