Saɱyutta Nikāya
3. Khandha Vagga
22. Khandha Saɱyutta
5. Atta-Dīpa Vagga
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha
Part II.
The Book of the Aggregates Khandha-Vagga
22. Connected Discourses on the Aggregates
V. With Yourselves as an Island
Paṭhama Aniccatā Suttaɱ
Sutta 45
Impermanent 1
Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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"Bhikkhus, form is impermanent.
What is impermanent is suffering.
[45] What is suffering is nonself.
What is nonself should be seen as it really is with correct wisdom thus:
'This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.'
When one sees this thus as it really is with correct wisdom, the mind becomes dispassionate and is liberated from the taints by nonclinging.
"Feeling is impermanent. ...
Perception is impermanent. ...
Volitional formations are impermanent. ...
Consciousness is impermanent.
What is impermanent is suffering.
What is suffering is nonself.
What is nonself should be seen as it really is with correct wisdom thus:
'This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.'
When one sees this thus as it really is with correct wisdom, the mind becomes dispassionate and is liberated from the taints by nonclinging.
"If, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu's mind has become dispassionate towards the form element, it is liberated from the taints by nonclinging.
If his mind has become dispassionate towards the feeling element ... towards the perception element ... towards the volitional formations element ... towards the consciousness element, it is liberated from the taints by nonclinging.
"By being liberated, it is steady; by being steady, it is content; by being content, he is not agitated.
Being unagitated, he personally attains Nibbāna.
He understands:
'Destroyed is birth, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more for this state of being."
