Saṃyutta Nikāya
3. Khandha Vagga
25. Okkantika Saṃyutta
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
3. The Book Called the Khandhā-Vagga
Containing Kindred Sayings on the Elements of Sensory Existence and other Subjects
25. Kindred Sayings on Entering
Sutta 8
Taṇhā Suttaṃ
Craving
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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The Exalted One was once staying near Sāvatthī
at the Jeta Grove in Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.
And there the Exalted One addressed the brethren, saying:
"Brethren!"
"Master!" responded those brethren.
The Exalted One said:
"Craving for body,[ed1] brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.
Craving for sounds, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.
Craving for scents, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.
Craving for savours, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.
Craving for tangibles, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.
Craving for ideas, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.
§
He who has faith and confidence, brethren,
in these doctrines,
such an one is called
'Walker in faith,
one who enters on assurance of perfection,
one who enters on the state of the worthy,
one who has escaped the state of the manyfolk;
one incapable of doing a deed
by which he would be reborn in purgatory
or in the womb of an animal,
or in the realm of Petas;
one incapable of dying without realizing
the fruita of stream-winning.'
■
He, brethren, by whom these doctrines
by his insight
are moderately approved,
is called
'Walker in Dhamma,
one who enters on assurance of perfection,
one who enters on the state of the worthy,
one who has escaped the state of the manyfolk;
one incapable of doing a deed
by which he would be reborn in purgatory
or in the womb of an animal,
or in the realm of Petas;
one incapable of dying without realizing
the fruita of stream-winning.'
■
He, brethren, who thus knows,
thus sees
these doctrines,
is called
'Stream-winner,
saved from destruction,
assured,
bound for enlightenment.'"
[ed1] As with §2, Woodward translates 'rūpa' as body, but what is being spoken of here are the objects of the senses and that would be 'visible objects' or 'sights' not just the body.
