The Hell Named ‘The Contact’s Sixfold Base’

Monks, it is a gain for you, it is well gained by you, that you have obtained the opportunity for living the holy life.

I have seen, Monks, the hell named ‘Contact’s Sixfold Base.’

There whatever form one sees with the eye is undesirable, never desirable; unlovely, never lovely; disagreeable, never agreeable.

Whatever sound one hears with the ear …

Whatever odor one smells with the nose …

Whatever flavor one tastes with the tongue …

Whatever physical object one touches with the body …

Whatever mental objects one recognizes with the mind is undesirable, never desirable; unlovely, never lovely; disagreeable, never agreeable.

It is a gain for you, Monks, it is well gained by you, that you have obtained the opportunity for living the holy life.

(Reference: SN 35.135)

In this Teaching from Gotama Buddha, he shares in these multiple Chapters how the various hells he was aware of are miserable and undesirable, not a place a being would be interested to experience.

“It is a gain for you, Monks, it is well gained by you, that you have obtained the opportunity for living the holy life”. The Buddha explains to the Students that because they are human and have the opportunity to learn and practice The Teachings through leading a holy life, it is a great gain and benefit to them. Through being able to learn, reflect, and practice these Teachings, an individual is able to escape the massive amount of discontentedness experienced through existence and through existing in The Cycle of Rebirth to include existence in the hell realm.

Any amount of existence in any of the realms should be seen as undesirable because if there is birth, there will be sickness, aging, and death to include a massive amount of discontentedness.