357. The Lord said: “That which is not yours - put it away. Putting it away will be to your welfare and happiness. And what is not yours? Body, feeling, perception, mental constructs and consciousness are not yours. So, put them away. It will be to your welfare and happiness. It is just as if a man should gather up, burn, or do whatever he wanted with all the grass, twigs and sticks here in Jeta’s Grove. Would you say: ‘This man is gathering us, he is burning us, he is doing what he wants with us’?”
“No, Lord.”
“And why not?”
“Because they are not ourselves, they are not ours.”
“Even so, body, feeling, perception, mental constructs and consciousness are not yours.”
S.III,34 (SN 22.33)