Saɱyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
35. Saḷāyatana Saɱyutta
§ II: Paññāsaka Dutiya
5. Saḷa Vagga
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha
IV. The Book of the Six Sense Bases
35: Connected Discourses on the Six Sense Bases
The Second Fifty
5. The Sixes
Sutta 100
Paṭisallāṇa Suttaɱ
Seclusion
Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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[1][pts] "Bhikkhus, make an exertion in seclusion.
A secluded bhikkhu understands things as they really are."
"And what does he understand as they really are?
He understands as it really is:
'The eye is impermanent.'
He understands as it really is:
'Forms are impermanent.'
...'Eye-consciousness is impermanent.'
... 'Eye-contact is impermanent.'
...'Whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition — whether pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant — that too is impermanent.'
"He understand as it really is:
'The mind is impermanent.'...
He understand as it really is:
'Whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition ... that too is impermanent.'
"Bhikkhus, make an exertion in seclusion.
A secluded bhikkhu understands things as they really are."
