[273] And how, bhikkhus, is the perception of impermanence (aniccasaññā) developed, how is it cultivated, so that it exhausts all lust for sensual pleasures (kāmarāga) … uproots all the conceit 'I am' (asmimāna)? 'Such is form, such is the origin of form, such is the passing away of form; such is feeling (vedanā) … such is perception … such are volitional formations … such is consciousness, such is the origin of consciousness, such is the passing away of consciousness.' When, bhikkhus, the perception of impermanence is developed in this way, cultivated in this way, it exhausts all lust for sensual pleasures, it exhausts all lust for form (rūparāga), it exhausts all lust for existence (bhavarāga), it exhausts all ignorance, and it uproots all the conceit 'I am'.
The Puppha Vagga, the fifth.
Its summary (uddāna):
The River, the Flower, and the Foam,
the Cow-dung and the Fingernail-tip,
the Ocean-farer, the two on the Leash,
the Ship, and Perception — these are the ten.¹
The Middle Fifty (Majjhimapaṇṇāsaka) is completed.
The summary of chapters of that Middle Fifty:
Upāya, the Arahants,
that called Khajjani and the Elders,²
with the Puppha Vagga — fifty;
therefore it is called the second.³
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¹ M. reads: "the Suddhika, the two on the Leash, the Adze-handle, Impermanence."
² Yu. reads: khajjanittherasambhayaṃ.
³ M., Yu. read: "the second; therefore it is called."
In the Khandhasaṃyutta, the Lesser Fifty (Cūḷapaṇṇāsaka): the Anta Vagga, the first.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.