Saḷāyatanasaṅyutta

Suttapiṭaka · Saṁyuttanikāya · Saḷāyatanavaggasaṁyutta · Vol. 18 · Section 1

[1] Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Sāvatthī, in Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's Park. There the Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus: "Bhikkhus." "Venerable sir," those bhikkhus replied to the Blessed One. The Blessed One said this: "Bhikkhus, the eye is impermanent. What is impermanent is suffering (dukkha); what is suffering is non-self (anattā); what is non-self should be seen as it really is (yathābhūta) with right wisdom thus: 'This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.' The ear is impermanent; what is impermanent … The nose is impermanent; what is impermanent … The tongue is impermanent; what is impermanent is suffering; what is suffering is non-self; what is non-self should be seen as it really is with right wisdom thus: 'This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.' The body is impermanent; what is impermanent … The mind (mano) is impermanent; what is impermanent is suffering; what is suffering is non-self; what is non-self should be seen as it really is with right wisdom thus: 'This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.' "Seeing thus, bhikkhus, the instructed noble disciple becomes disenchanted with the eye, becomes disenchanted with the ear, becomes disenchanted with the nose, becomes disenchanted with the tongue, becomes disenchanted with the body, becomes disenchanted with the mind. Being disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate; through dispassion he is liberated. When liberated, there is the knowledge (ñāṇa): 'Liberated.' He understands: 'Birth is destroyed, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more of this state of being.'" The first.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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