{"id":"sn35.236","title":"The Simile of Hands and Feet (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn35.236","title":"The Simile of Hands and Feet (1st)","units":[{"id":"sn35.236:0","sourceIds":["sn35.236:0.1","sn35.236:0.2","sn35.236:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.236\n18. Samuddavagga\nPaṭhamahatthapādopamasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 35.236\n18. The Ocean\nThe Simile of Hands and Feet (1st)"}},{"id":"sn35.236:1","sourceIds":["sn35.236:1.1","sn35.236:1.2","sn35.236:1.3","sn35.236:1.4","sn35.236:1.5","sn35.236:1.6","sn35.236:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Hatthesu, bhikkhave, sati ādānanikkhepanaṁ paññāyati;\npādesu sati abhikkamapaṭikkamo paññāyati;\npabbesu sati samiñjanapasāraṇaṁ paññāyati;\nkucchismiṁ sati jighacchā pipāsā paññāyati.\nEvameva kho, bhikkhave, cakkhusmiṁ sati cakkhusamphassapaccayā uppajjati ajjhattaṁ sukhaṁ dukkhaṁ …pe…\njivhāya sati jivhāsamphassapaccayā uppajjati ajjhattaṁ sukhaṁ dukkhaṁ …pe…\nmanasmiṁ sati manosamphassapaccayā uppajjati ajjhattaṁ sukhaṁ dukkhaṁ …pe….","en":"“Mendicants, when there are hands, picking up and putting down are found.\nWhen there are feet, coming and going are found.\nWhen there are joints, contracting and extending are found.\nWhen there’s a belly, hunger and thirst are found.\nIn the same way, when there’s an eye, pleasure and pain arise internally conditioned by eye contact.\nWhen there’s an ear … nose … tongue … body …\nmind, pleasure and pain arise internally conditioned by mind contact."}},{"id":"sn35.236:2","sourceIds":["sn35.236:2.1","sn35.236:2.2","sn35.236:2.3","sn35.236:2.4","sn35.236:2.5","sn35.236:2.6","sn35.236:2.7","sn35.236:2.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Hatthesu, bhikkhave, asati ādānanikkhepanaṁ na paññāyati;\npādesu asati abhikkamapaṭikkamo na paññāyati;\npabbesu asati samiñjanapasāraṇaṁ na paññāyati;\nkucchismiṁ asati jighacchā pipāsā na paññāyati.\nEvameva kho, bhikkhave, cakkhusmiṁ asati cakkhusamphassapaccayā nuppajjati ajjhattaṁ sukhaṁ dukkhaṁ …pe…\njivhāya asati jivhāsamphassapaccayā nuppajjati …pe…\nmanasmiṁ asati manosamphassapaccayā nuppajjati ajjhattaṁ sukhaṁ dukkhan”ti.\nNavamaṁ.","en":"When there are no hands, picking up and putting down aren’t found.\nWhen there are no feet, coming and going aren’t found.\nWhen there are no joints, contracting and extending aren’t found.\nWhen there’s no belly, hunger and thirst aren’t found.\nIn the same way, when there’s no eye, pleasure and pain don’t arise internally conditioned by eye contact.\nWhen there’s no ear … nose … tongue … body …\nmind, pleasure and pain don’t arise internally conditioned by mind contact.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.236/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."}