Dighanikaya 1.49-52

1.49-52

Takkīvāde ayaṃ cakkhādīnaṃ bhedaṃ passati, cittaṃ pana yasmā purimaṃ purimaṃ pacchimassa pacchimassa paccayaṃ datvāva nirujjhati, tasmā cakkhādīnaṃ bhedato balavatarampi cittassa bhedaṃ na passati. So taṃ apassanto yathā nāma sakuṇo ekaṃ rukkhaṃ jahitvā aññasmiṃ nilīyati, evameva imasmiṃ attabhāve bhinne cittaṃ aññatra gacchatīti gahetvā evamāha. Sesamettha vuttanayeneva veditabbaṃ.

In the logician's doctrine, this one sees the breakup of the eye and so on; but because mind ceases only after giving condition to each subsequent one, he does not see the breakup of the mind, which is even stronger than the breakup of the eye and so on. Not seeing that, he spoke thus, taking it: "Just as a bird, having abandoned one tree, alights on another, even so, when this individual existence has broken up, the mind goes elsewhere." The rest here should be understood in the very manner stated.