Samyuktagama (Sanskrit fragments) 50.6

50.6

佛告阿難：「善哉！善哉！應如是答。所以者何？我實為於色修厭、離欲、滅盡、解脫、不生故，教人修諸梵行；於受、想、行、識，修厭、離欲、滅盡、解脫、不生故，教人修諸梵行。」

The Buddha told Ānanda, “Good, good! You should answer in this way. Why is that? I really do instruct people to cultivate religious practices so that they will cultivate disillusionment with form, part with desire for it, completely cease it, be freed from it, and for it not to arise. I instruct people to cultivate religious practices so that they will cultivate disillusionment with feeling … conception … volition … awareness, part with desire for it, completely cease it, be freed from it, and for it not to arise.”