Paṭhamamigajālasutta
With Migajāla (1st)
Venerable Migajāla asks how one lives alone, and how with a partner. The Buddha says that so long as one is bound by desire to the senses, one lives with a partner. A mendicant free of such desire dwells alone, even if they live in close association with worldly people.
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Dutiyamigajālasutta
With Migajāla (2nd)
Venerable Migajāla asks for a teaching to take on retreat. The Buddha teaches him that the senses are delightful, but if you hold to them you will suffer. Meditating on this while on retreat, Migajāla became awakened.
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Paṭhamachaphassāyatanasutta
Six Fields of Contact (1st)
One who does not understand the six senses’ origin, ending, gratification, drawback, and escape is no true mendicant. A mendicant speaks up, saying that he does not truly understand these things, so the Buddha teaches him further.
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Dutiyachaphassāyatanasutta
Six Fields of Contact (2nd)
One who does not understand the six senses’ origin, ending, gratification, drawback, and escape is no true mendicant. A mendicant speaks up, saying that he does not truly understand these things, so the Buddha teaches him further.
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Tatiyachaphassāyatanasutta
Six Fields of Contact (3rd)
One who does not understand the six senses’ origin, ending, gratification, drawback, and escape is no true mendicant. A mendicant speaks up, saying that he does not truly understand these things, so the Buddha teaches him further.
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Channasutta
With Channa
Sāriputta and Mahācunda visit Channa, who is ill. Channa says that he lacks for no care, but is in such great pain that he wishes to take his own life, insisting that he will do so blamelessly. Sāriputta tries to dissuade him, and questions him closely about attachment to the six senses. Later Channa does take his own life, and the Buddha confirmed that, despite Sāriputta’s doubts, he was indeed blameless.
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Mālukyaputtasutta
Māluṅkyaputta
Venerable Māluṅkyaputta asks for a teaching to take on retreat. The Buddha wonders how to teach an old monk like him, then questions him on his desire for sense experience that has been or might be, and encourages him to simply let sense experience be. Māluṅkyaputta says he understands, and expands the Buddha’s teaching in a series of verses.
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Parihānadhammasutta
Liable to Decline
When a mendicant tolerates evil thoughts that arise from the senses, they are liable to decline. If they don’t tolerate them, they’re not liable to decline. When such thoughts not longer arise, they have mastered the senses.
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Udakasutta
About Uddaka
The Buddha’s former teacher Uddaka Rāmaputta claimed to be a knowledge master, a universal victor, who had excised the tumor. But a true knowledge master understands the senses, a victor is freed from them, and excising the tumor is being free from attachment to the body.