SN35:100 Seclusion
- © Translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi. (More copyright information)
1"Bhikkhus, make an exertion in seclusion. A secluded bhikkhu understands things as they really are." sn.iv.81
"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.’
He understands as it really is: ‘Eye-consciousness is impermanent.’
He understands as it really is: ‘Eye-contact is impermanent.’ …
He understands as it really is: ‘Whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition— whether pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant— that too is impermanent.’
He understands as it really is: The ear … the nose … the tongue … the body … are all 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."
1"Paṭisallāne, bhikkhave, yogamāpajjatha. Paṭisallīno, bhikkhave, bhikkhu yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti.
Kiñca yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti?
‘Cakkhu aniccan’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti; ‘rūpā aniccā’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti; ‘cakkhuviññāṇaṁ aniccan’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti; ‘cakkhusamphasso anicco’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti.
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‘yampidaṁ manosamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tampi aniccan’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti.
Paṭisallāne, bhikkhave, yogamāpajjatha. Paṭisallīno, bhikkhave, bhikkhu yathābhūtaṁ pajānātī"ti.
Sattamaṁ.
