sn35.233:4.1 Suppose there was a black ox and a white ox yoked by a single harness or yoke.
sn35.233:4.2 Would it be right to say that
sn35.233:4.3 the black ox is the yoke of the white ox, or the white ox is the yoke of the black ox?”
sn35.233:4.4 “No, reverend.
sn35.233:4.5 The black ox is not the yoke of the white ox, nor is the white ox the yoke of the black ox.
sn35.233:4.6 The yoke there is the single harness or yoke that they’re yoked by.”
sn35.233:4.7 “In the same way, the eye is not the fetter of sights, nor are sights the fetter of the eye.
sn35.233:4.8 The ear … nose … tongue … body …
sn35.233:4.9 mind is not the fetter of ideas, nor are ideas the fetter of the mind.
sn35.233:4.10 The fetter there is the desire and greed that arises from the pair of them.”