Hetubāhirasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Saṁyuttanikāya · Saḷāyatanavaggasaṁyutta · Vol. 18 · Section 226

[226] Bhikkhus, forms (rūpā) are nonself (anattā). The cause and the condition for the arising of forms is also nonself. Bhikkhus, when forms have sprung from what is nonself, how could they be self? Sounds, odors, tastes, tangibles, and mental phenomena (dhammā) are nonself. The cause and the condition for the arising of mental phenomena — that too is nonself. Bhikkhus, when mental phenomena have sprung from what is nonself, how could they be self? Seeing thus, bhikkhus, the instructed noble disciple becomes disenchanted with forms; he becomes disenchanted with sounds, with odors, with tastes, with tangibles, with mental phenomena. Being disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate; through dispassion he is liberated. When it is liberated, there is the knowledge (ñāṇa): "It is liberated." He understands: "Birth (jāti) 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 tenth. The Devadaha Vagga, the fourth. Its summary verse (uddāna): Devadaha, the Moment, Upaggayha¹ — there are two on Aggayha, with the mind²; three were spoken with "cause," and two on the internal and the external. __________ ¹ The Burmese edition reads: "Devadaha, the Moment, Forms — two; and Not Yours as well." The European edition reads: "Devadaha, the Moment, Saṅgayha." ² The European edition reads: "palāsinā." The Navapurāṇa Vagga, the fifth.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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