An Explanation on Principles

@ what the Buddha taught

Saṃyutta Nikāya
Khandhavaggo
Khandhasaṃyuttaṃ
Dhammakathikavaggo
Saṃyojaniyasuttaṃ
SN22.120

Situated at Sāvatthi.

'I shall point out, almsmen, and the yokeable principles and the yoke. Hear that.

And which, almsmen, yokeable principles, which yoke?

Form, almsmen, a yokeable principle; what there the desire and passion is, that there the yoke. Feeling, almsmen, a yokeable principle; what there the desire and passion is, that there the yoke. Inclinations, almsmen, a yokeable principle; what there the desire and passion, that there the yoke. Cognition, almsmen, a yokeable principle; what there the desire and passion, that there the yoke.

These are called, almsmen, yokeable principles; this the yoke.'