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Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Linked Discourses

Vol 1:
Verses
SN1-11
Vol 2:
Causation
SN12-21
Vol 3:
Aggregates
SN22-34
Vol 4:
Sense Bases
SN35-44
Vol 5:
Great Book
SN45-56

35. Saḷāyatanasaṁyutta: On the Six Sense Fields

XVII. Sixty Abbreviated Texts — SN35.216-218: The Exterior and What’s Suffering in the Three Times

“Mendicants, in the past … future … present sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and thoughts are suffering. What’s suffering is not-self …”

"Rūpā, bhikkhave, dukkhā atītā anāgatā paccuppannā. Yaṁ dukkhaṁ, tadanattā. Yadanattā, taṁ ‘netaṁ mama, nesohamasmi, na meso attā’ti evametaṁ yathābhūtaṁ sammappaññāya daṭṭhabbaṁ. Saddā … gandhā … rasā … phoṭṭhabbā … dhammā dukkhā atītā anāgatā paccuppannā. Yaṁ dukkhaṁ, tadanattā. Yadanattā, taṁ ‘netaṁ mama, nesohamasmi, na meso attā’ti evametaṁ yathābhūtaṁ sammappaññāya daṭṭhabbaṁ. Evaṁ passaṁ … pe … nāparaṁ itthattāyāti pajānātī"ti.