Saɱyutta Nikāya
3. Khandha Vagga
22. Khandha Saɱyutta
3. Bhāra Vagga

The Connected Discourses of the Buddha
Part II.
The Book of the Aggregates Khandha-Vagga
22. Connected Discourses on the Aggregates
III. The Burden

Sutta 32

Pabhangu Suttaɱ

The Fragile

Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi

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[1][pts] At Sāvatthī.

"Bhikkhus, I will teach you the fragile and the unfragile.

Listen to that. ...

"And what, bhikkhus, is the fragile, and what the unfragile?

Form is the fragile; its cessation, subsiding, passing away is the unfragile.

Feeling is the fragile ...

Perception is the fragile ...

Volitional formations are the fragile ...

Consciousness is the fragile; its cessation, subsiding, passing away is the unfragile."