sn35.243:4.1 “And how is someone festering?
sn35.243:4.2 Take a mendicant who sees a sight with their eyes. If it’s pleasant they hold on to it, but if it’s unpleasant they dislike it. They live with mindfulness of the body unestablished and their heart stunted.
sn35.243:4.3 And they don’t truly understand the freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom where those arisen bad, unskillful qualities cease without remainder.
sn35.243:4.4 They hear a sound … smell an odor … taste a flavor … feel a touch …
sn35.243:4.5 know an idea with their mind. If it’s pleasant they hold on to it, but if it’s unpleasant they dislike it. They live with mindfulness of the body unestablished and their heart stunted.
sn35.243:4.6 And they don’t truly understand the freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom where those arisen bad, unskillful qualities cease without remainder.
sn35.243:4.7 This is called a mendicant who is festering when it comes to sights known by the eye,
sn35.243:4.8 sounds … smells … tastes … touches …
sn35.243:4.9 ideas known by the mind.
sn35.243:4.10 When a mendicant lives like this, if Māra comes at them through the eye he finds a vulnerability and gets an opportunity.
sn35.243:4.11 If Māra comes at them through the ear … nose … tongue … body …
sn35.243:4.12 mind he finds a vulnerability and gets an opportunity.