{"id":"sn14.3","title":"Not Diversity of Contacts","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn14.3","title":"Not Diversity of Contacts","units":[{"id":"sn14.3:0","sourceIds":["sn14.3:0.1","sn14.3:0.2","sn14.3:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 14.3\n1. Nānattavagga\nNophassanānattasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 14.3\n1. Diversity\nNot Diversity of Contacts"}},{"id":"sn14.3:1","sourceIds":["sn14.3:1.1","sn14.3:1.2","sn14.3:1.3","sn14.3:1.4","sn14.3:1.5","sn14.3:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Dhātunānattaṁ, bhikkhave, paṭicca uppajjati phassanānattaṁ, no phassanānattaṁ paṭicca uppajjati dhātunānattaṁ.\nKatamañca, bhikkhave, dhātunānattaṁ?\nCakkhudhātu …pe…\nmanodhātu—\nidaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, dhātunānattaṁ.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, diversity of elements gives rise to diversity of contacts. Diversity of contacts doesn’t give rise to diversity of elements.\nAnd what is the diversity of elements?\nThe eye element, ear element, nose element, tongue element, body element, and mind element.\nThis is called the diversity of elements."}},{"id":"sn14.3:2","sourceIds":["sn14.3:2.1","sn14.3:2.2","sn14.3:2.3","sn14.3:2.4","sn14.3:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kathañca, bhikkhave, dhātunānattaṁ paṭicca uppajjati phassanānattaṁ, no phassanānattaṁ paṭicca uppajjati dhātunānattaṁ?\nCakkhudhātuṁ, bhikkhave, paṭicca uppajjati cakkhusamphasso, no cakkhusamphassaṁ paṭicca uppajjati cakkhudhātu …pe…\nmanodhātuṁ paṭicca uppajjati manosamphasso, no manosamphassaṁ paṭicca uppajjati manodhātu.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, dhātunānattaṁ paṭicca uppajjati phassanānattaṁ, no phassanānattaṁ paṭicca uppajjati dhātunānattan”ti.\nTatiyaṁ.","en":"And how does diversity of elements give rise to diversity of contacts, while diversity of contacts doesn’t give rise to diversity of elements?\nThe eye element gives rise to eye contact. Eye contact doesn’t give rise to the eye element. …\nThe mind element gives rise to mind contact. Mind contact doesn’t give rise to the mind element.\nThat’s how diversity of elements gives rise to diversity of contacts, while diversity of contacts doesn’t give rise to diversity of elements.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn14.3/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}