Saṃyuktāgama (294), Part Two

(2) Original text: 若黠慧者无明覆。爱缘系得此识身。如是内有识身。外有名色。此二缘生六触入处。六触所触故。智者生苦乐受觉。因起种种。何等为六。眼触入处。耳鼻舌身意触入处。愚夫黠慧彼于我所。修诸梵行者。有何差别。比丘白佛言。世尊是法根。法眼法依。善哉。世尊。惟愿演说。诸比丘闻已，当受奉行。

Explanation: If a person of intelligence and wisdom is obscured by ignorance, and the condition of craving binds this body of the six consciousnesses, then in this way there is internally a body of consciousness, and externally name-and-form (the five aggregates); from the conjunction of these two, the six sense-contact bases arise. Because of the contact of the six contacts, the person of intelligence and wisdom gives rise to feelings of suffering and pleasure, and various feelings arise from these conditions. What are the six? They are the eye-contact sense base, the ear-, nose-, tongue-, body-, and mind-contact sense bases. Both the foolish worldling and the person of intelligence and wisdom have various feelings such as suffering and pleasure at the six sense-contact bases, and both cultivate the pure spiritual life (brahmacarya) with me—what difference is there between them? The bhikṣus said to the Buddha: World-Honored One, You are the root of the Dharma, the eye of the Dharma, the reliance of the Dharma. Excellent, World-Honored One! We only wish that You would expound this meaning. After the bhikṣus hear it, they shall accept and practice it.

Original text: 尔时。世尊告诸比丘。谛听善思。当为汝说。诸比丘。彼愚痴无闻凡夫无明所覆。爱缘所系。得此识身。彼无明不断。爱缘不尽。身坏命终。还复受身。还受身故。不得解脱生老病死忧悲恼苦。所以者何。此愚痴凡夫本不修梵行。向正尽苦。究竟苦边故。是故身坏命终。还复受身。还受身故。不得解脱生老病死忧悲恼苦。

Explanation: The World-Honored One told the bhikṣus: Listen carefully and contemplate well; I shall now explain it for you. Bhikṣus, those foolish worldlings without learning, because they are obscured by ignorance and bound by the condition of craving, obtain this body of the six consciousnesses. Because their ignorance is not severed and the condition of craving is not exhausted, when the body breaks up and life ends, they will again receive a body; because they again receive a body, they cannot be liberated from birth, aging, sickness, death, sorrow, grief, suffering, and distress. Why is this so? Because these foolish worldlings fundamentally do not cultivate the pure spiritual life, do not aim at the right exhaustion of suffering and reaching the far shore of the utter end of suffering. Therefore, when the body breaks up and life ends, they will again receive a body; because they again receive a body, when the body breaks up and life ends, they cannot attain liberation from birth, aging, sickness, death, sorrow, grief, suffering, and distress.