Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c36.79

v2.c36.79

The Sam. now ask the Th. whether they would admit that one (*yo*) who sees something (*yam*) by means of an organ of sense (*yena*) is the *puggala* or not. The Th. after assenting to it as a conventional truth (*sammutisacca*), put the same question in the negative form thus: One (*yo*) who² does not see anything (*yam*) by means of an organ of sense (*yena*) is not a *puggala*. The Sam., however, without arguing further quote a few passages in which Buddha said: I (i.e. the *puggala*) see by means of my divine eyes (*dibbena cakkhunā*) beings appearing and disappearing and so forth, and infer therefrom that the seer is the *puggala*.