There are six bases of interaction
Proclaimed by the Blessed
One who knows and sees,
Accomplished and fully enlightened.
What six?
The eye and the seen,
The ear and sounds, the nose and smells,
The tongue and taste,
The Body and touch,
The mind and its workings.
These are the six bases of interaction
Proclaimed by the Blessed One.
How does our Venerable
Friend know and see
These six bases of interaction without clinging?
Without clinging to what it sensed.
Friends, the desire, lust and delight,
Craving, attraction and clinging,
Mental attitudes, adherences and tendencies,
Wrought by these six bases of contact and interaction,
Arise no more.
With their fading, shattering and cessation,
My mind is librated from the taints
My mind is free.
