sn35.23:1.1 At Sāvatthī.
sn35.23:1.2 “Mendicants, I will teach you the all.
sn35.23:1.3 Listen …
sn35.23:1.4 And what is the all?
sn35.23:1.5 It’s just the eye and sights, the ear and sounds, the nose and smells, the tongue and tastes, the body and touches, and the mind and ideas.
sn35.23:1.6 This is called the all.
sn35.23:1.7 Mendicants, suppose someone was to say:
sn35.23:1.8 ‘I’ll deny this all and describe another all.’ They’d have no grounds for that claim,
sn35.23:1.9 they’d be stumped by questions, and, in addition, they’d get frustrated.
sn35.23:1.10 Why is that?
sn35.23:1.11 Because they’re out of their element.”