SN35.94
“Mendicants, it’s just the six fields of contact
that lead the unrestrained to suffering.
Those who understand how to restrain them
live with faith as partner, uncorrupted.
When you’ve seen pleasant sights
and unpleasant ones, too,
get rid of desire for the pleasant,
without hating what you don’t like.
When you’ve heard sounds both liked and disliked,
don’t fall under the thrall of sounds you like,
get rid of hate for the unliked,
and don’t hurt your mind by thinking of what you don’t like.
When you’ve smelled a pleasant, fragrant scent,
and one that’s foul and unpleasant,
get rid of aversion for the unpleasant,
while not yielding to desire for the pleasant.
When you’ve enjoyed a sweet, delicious taste,
and sometimes those that are bitter,
don’t be attached to enjoying sweet tastes,
and don’t despise the bitter.
Don’t be intoxicated by a pleasant touch,
and don’t tremble at a painful touch.
Look with equanimity at the duality of pleasant and painful contacts,
without favoring or opposing anything.
People generally let their perceptions proliferate;
perceiving and proliferating, they are attracted.
When you’ve dispelled all thoughts of the lay life,
wander intent on renunciation.
When the mind is well developed like this regarding the six,
it doesn’t waver at contacts at all.
Mendicants, those who have mastered greed and hate
go beyond birth and death.”
But how to do this?
SN 35.1 / SN 35.4
The six interior/ exterior sense fields are impermanent, suffering, and not-self. When a noble disciple truly sees them like this, they become disillusioned and liberated.
SN 35.17 / SN 35.18
Beings are attached to the six interior/ exterior sense fields due to gratification, repelled due to drawbacks, and find escape because there is an escape.
SN 35.19 / SN 35.20
If you enjoy the six interior/ exterior sense fields, you enjoy suffering.
SN 35.23
The “all” consists of the six interior and exterior sense fields.
SN 35.33–42
The “all” consisting of the six interior and exterior sense fields is liable to be reborn, to age, etc.
SN 35.25
The “all” consisting of the six interior and exterior sense fields should be given up by understanding.
SN 35.32
The way to uproot all conceivings is to investigate the six sense fields as impermanent, etc.
SN 35.61
To end grasping, see how sense experience gives rise to feeling.
SN 35.62
To end grasping, investigate the six sense fields as impermanent, etc.
SN 35.84
The Buddha tells Ānanda that in the training of the noble one the “world” consisting of six sense experience is liable fall apart.
SN 35.107
The origin and ending of the world are explained in terms of sense experience giving rise to craving and suffering.
SN 35.91
Being stirred by craving is painful, so the Realized One lives unstirred, not identifying with any aspect of sense experience, or indeed, with the entire scope of the aggregates, elements, and senses.
SN 35.99
Develop meditative immersion so as to truly understand the process of sense experience.
SN 35.101
Let go of what is not yours: the process of sense experience. You wouldn’t be upset if someone took the grass and sticks from the monastery grounds, so why worry over the aggregates?
SN 35.150
The way suitable for realizing extinguishment is to contemplate the process of sense experience as impermanent, suffering, and not-self.
SN 35.158 / SN 35.159
Focusing properly on the interior/ exterior sense fields you see them as they are and become free.