[89] "What do you think, bhikkhu — is the eye permanent or impermanent?"
"Impermanent, venerable sir."
"Is the ear … the nose … the tongue … the body … the mind permanent or impermanent?"
"Impermanent, venerable sir."
"And that which is impermanent — is it suffering (dukkha) or happiness?"
"Suffering, venerable sir."
"And that which is impermanent, suffering, and subject to change — is it fitting to regard it thus: 'This is mine, this I am, this is my self'?"
"No indeed, venerable sir."
"Seeing thus, bhikkhu, the instructed noble disciple becomes disenchanted with the eye … becomes disenchanted with the mind. Being disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate; through dispassion he is liberated. When it is liberated, there comes the knowledge (ñāṇa): 'It is liberated.' He understands: 'Birth (jāti) is destroyed … there is no more coming to any state of being.'"
This is what the Blessed One said. Elated, that bhikkhu delighted in the Blessed One's words. And while this exposition was being spoken, there arose in that bhikkhu the dust-free, stainless eye of Dhamma (dhammacakkhu): "Whatever is subject to origination, all that is subject to cessation."
The first.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.