Bāla- Pandita Sutra: The Fool & the Wise Person
While dwelling at Savatthi the Blessed One preached, " When a fool is obstructed by ignorance and conjoined with craving, this body thus results. Now there is both this body and external name-&-form. Here, in dependence on this duality, there is contact at the six senses. Touched by these, or one or another of them, the fool is sensitive to pleasure & pain.” "When a wise person is obstructed by ignorance and conjoined with craving, this body thus results. Now there is both this body and external name-&-form. Here, in dependence on this duality, there is contact at the six senses. Touched by these, or one or another of them, the wise person is sensitive to pleasure & pain .” This is a profound teaching by the Buddha. The body he referred to here is not the body which is known as a sense faculty, it’s the corporeal which consists of all sense bases or the body where consciousness arise through the eye, the ear, the nose, the tongue, the body and the mind....