Friends:
'I'-dentification leads to both mental & bodily Suffering:
How, friends, is one troubled both in body and troubled in mind?
Here, friends, the uneducated ordinary person, who is not a friend
of any Noble Ones and is unskilled and untrained in their Dhamma,
who is not a friend of any Great Men and is unskilled and untrained in
their Dhamma, such one regards form as self, or self as possessing form,
or form as inside self, or self as inside form. He lives obsessed by the
notions: 'I am form, this form is mine'... As he lives obsessed by these
notions, that form of his always & inevitably changes, alters & decays...
With this very change and alteration of form, there arises in him sorrow,
lamentation, grief, pain, discontent, and quite desperate despair...
Such one regards feeling, perception, construction & consciousness as
the 'self', or the 'self' as possessing feeling, perception, construction &
consciousness, or feeling, perception, construction & consciousness as
hidden inside the 'self', or the 'self' as hidden inside feeling, perception,
construction & consciousness. He lives obsessed & possessed by these
subconscious notions: 'I am this very feeling, perception, construction &
consciousness, this feeling, perception, construction & consciousness is
all mine'... As he lives obsessed by these notions, his feeling, perception,
construction & consciousness inevitably changes, & decays... With this same
change and alteration of feeling, perception, construction & consciousness,
there arises in him sorrow, crying, pain, discontent, & desperate despair...
It is in this way, friends, that one is troubled both in body and in mind !!!
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya 22(1): [III 1-5]
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/samyutta/sn22-001.html
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