[428] "What do you think, bhikkhus—is form (rūpa) permanent or impermanent?"
"Impermanent, venerable sir." … "subject to change—could such a view as this arise without clinging to that: 'For one who acts, for one who makes others act … there is no merit, there is no coming of merit'?"
"No indeed, venerable sir."
"Is feeling (vedanā) … perception (saññā) … volitional formations (saṅkhārā) … consciousness (viññāṇa) permanent or impermanent?"
"Impermanent, venerable sir." … "Could such a view as this arise without clinging to that: 'For one who acts, for one who makes others act … there is no coming of merit'?"
"No indeed, venerable sir."
"And whatever is seen, heard, sensed, cognized, attained, sought after, and ranged over by the mind—is that permanent or impermanent?"
"Impermanent, venerable sir." … "Could such a view as this arise without clinging to that: 'For one who acts, for one who makes others act … there is no merit, there is no coming of merit'?"
"No indeed, venerable sir."
"Bhikkhus, when a noble disciple has abandoned doubt in these six cases, and his doubt about suffering (dukkha) is abandoned … and his doubt about the way of practice leading to the cessation of suffering is abandoned—this noble disciple, bhikkhus, is called a stream-enterer (sotāpanna), no longer subject to downfall, fixed in destiny, with full awakening as his destination."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.