Connected Discourses 35.96

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1. Linked Discourses 35.96
2. 10. The Sixes
3. Liable to Decline
4. “Mendicants, I will teach you who is liable to decline, who is not liable to decline, and the six fields of mastery.
5. Listen …
6. And how is someone liable to decline?
7. When a mendicant sees a sight with the eye, bad, unskillful phenomena arise: memories and thoughts prone to fetters.
8. Suppose that mendicant tolerates them and doesn’t give them up, get rid of them, eliminate them, and obliterate them. They should understand:
9. ‘My skillful qualities are declining.
10. For this is what the Buddha calls decline.’
11. Furthermore, when a mendicant hears a sound … smells an odor … tastes a flavor … feels a touch …
12. knows an idea with the mind, bad, unskillful phenomena arise: memories and thoughts prone to fetters.
13. If that mendicant tolerates them and doesn’t give them up, get rid of them, eliminate them, and obliterate them, they should understand:
14. ‘My skillful qualities are declining.
15. For this is what the Buddha calls decline.’
16. That’s how someone is liable to decline.
17. And how is someone not liable to decline?
18. When a mendicant sees a sight with the eye, bad, unskillful phenomena arise: memories and thoughts prone to fetters.
19. Suppose that mendicant doesn’t tolerate them but gives them up, gets rid of them, eliminates them, and obliterates them. They should understand:
20. ‘My skillful qualities are not declining.
21. For this is what the Buddha calls non-decline.’
22. Furthermore, when a mendicant hears a sound … smells an odor … tastes a flavor … feels a touch …
23. knows an idea with the mind, bad, unskillful phenomena arise: memories and thoughts prone to fetters.
24. Suppose that mendicant doesn’t tolerate them but gives them up, gets rid of them, eliminates them, and obliterates them. They should understand:
25. ‘My skillful qualities are not declining.
26. For this is what the Buddha calls non-decline.’
27. That’s how someone is not liable to decline.
28. And what are the six fields of mastery?
29. When a mendicant sees a sight with the eye, bad, unskillful phenomena don’t arise: memories and thoughts prone to fetters.
30. They should understand:
31. ‘This sense field has been mastered.
32. For this is what the Buddha calls a field of mastery.’ …
33. Furthermore, when a mendicant knows an idea with the mind, bad, unskillful phenomena don’t arise: memories and thoughts prone to fetters.
34. They should understand:
35. ‘This sense field has been mastered.
36. For this is what the Buddha calls a field of mastery.’
37. These are the six fields of mastery.”