Anguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

1: The Book of the Ones

1. Obsession of the Mind - 51

1 “Luminous is this mind, O bhikkhus, but it is defiled by visiting defilements. The one to whom the hearing [of the Dhamma] does not come to be, the puthujjana, does not wisely understand this as it has come to be. Therefore, for the one to whom the hearing [of the Dhamma] does not come to be, the puthujjana, there is no enculturation of the mind, I say.”

1 pabhassaramidaṃ bhikkhave cittaṃ tañca kho āgantukehi upakkilesehi upakkiliṭṭhaṃ. taṃ assutavā puthujjano yathābhūtaṃ nappajānāti. tasmā assutavato puthujjanassa cittabhāvanā natthīti vadāmīti.