Samyuktagama (Sanskrit fragments) 230.7

230.7

佛告三彌離提：「謂眼、色、眼識、眼觸、眼觸因緣生受，內覺若苦、若樂、不苦不樂。耳、鼻、舌、身、意、法、意識、意觸、意觸因緣生受，內覺若苦、若樂、不苦不樂，是名世間。所以者何？六入處集則觸集，如是乃至純大苦聚集。

There was then a monk named Samṛddhi who went to the Buddha, bowed his head at the Buddha’s feet, and withdrew to sit at one side. He said to the Buddha, “Bhagavān, there’s what’s called ‘the world’ (2.123) … ‘a sentient being’ (2.124) … ‘Māra’ (2.125). What is it that’s called ‘the world’ … ‘a sentient being’ … ‘Māra’?”

The Buddha told Samṛddhi, “It refers to the eye, form, visual consciousness, visual contact, feelings that dependently arise from visual contact, and inner experiences that are painful, pleasant, or neither painful nor pleasant. It refers to the ear … nose … tongue … body … mind, notions, cognitive consciousness, cognitive contact, and feelings that dependently arise from cognitive contact, and inner experiences that are painful, pleasant, or neither painful nor pleasant. This is called ‘the world’ … ‘a sentient being’ … ‘Māra.’ Why is that? The six sense fields form, and then contact forms … The whole mass of suffering forms.